to revive
→
to cure, treat (medically)
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Geez | |
| Lexeme | ʔaḥyawa | |
| Meaning 1 | to make alive, to order to live | ʔana ʔǝḳattǝl wa-ʔāḥayyu ‘I kill and revive’ (Deut. 32:39) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (the diseased: to make healthy, to cure | wa-yəbelo waldəya dəwwəy hallo betəya... wa-yəbelo ʔana ʔəmaṣṣəʔ wa-ʔaḥayyəwwo ‘he told him: my sick son is in my house... and he told him: I shall come and cure him’ (Matth. 8:7) |
| Reference | ||
| Comment | (LLA 126-127); cf. also ḥaywa 'vivere; valescere' (to live; to recover from illness) (ibid.) | |