fearful, dreadful
→
ugly
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 7744 | fearful, dreadful | → | unpleasant | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Italian | |
| lexeme | spaventoso | |
| meaning 1 | horrible, terrible, awful | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | disgusting | donna di una bruttezza spaventosa hideously ugly woman |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Old Norse | |
| language 2 | English | |
| lexeme 1 | uggligr | |
| lexeme 2 | ugly | |
| meaning 1 | dreadful, fearful | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ugly | |
| reference | ||
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | страшный (strašnyj) | |
| meaning 1 | terrible, frightful | страшная сказка a scary tale |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | ugly | У него жена такая страшная! His wife is so ugly! |
| reference | ||
| comment | Cf. also страшна собой (ugly). | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | horroroso | |
| meaning 1 | horrible, terrible | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | ugly (colloq.) | |
| reference | ||
| comment | Narumov 1995: 414 | |