to revive
→
to repaire, mend
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language | Ancient Hebrew | |
| lexeme | חִיָּה ḥiyyā (pi'el-stem) | |
| meaning 1 | to let live, preserve alive | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to repaire, restore | ha-yəḥayyū äṯ-hā-ˀăḇānīm mē-ˁărēmōṯ hä-ˁāp̄ār wə-hēmmā śərūp̄ōṯ (Neh. 4:2) Can they revive the stones from the
heaps of rubble, even the burned ones? |
| reference | HALOT: root no. 2815 | |
| comment | Causative stem from חָיָה 'to live'. |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Geez | |
| lexeme | ʔaḥyawa | |
| meaning 1 | to make alive, to order to live | ʔana ʔǝḳattǝl wa-ʔāḥayyu (Deut. 32:39) I kill and revive |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to repaire, to mend | ʔaḥyawa məśwāʕa za-mazbara (3 Reg. 18:32); yāḥayyəwu ʔarafāta (1 Esr. 2:17) He reestablished the altar which lay in ruins; they repaire the bulwark |
| reference | LLA: 126-127 | |
| comment | ||