to itch
→
to want
4 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 14799) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | itch | |
| meaning 1 | to itch | My feet were itching terribly. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to want | He was itching for a fight. Chris is itching to get back to work. |
| reference | LDOCE | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 14800) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | démanger | |
| meaning 1 | to itch | La cicatrice me démange. My scar is itching. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to want | L'envie de la battre les démangeait parfois. Sometimes they were itching to hit her. (lit. the desire to hit her was itching them) |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 3 (ID: 37922) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | jucken | |
| meaning 1 | to itch | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to want | Es juckte ihm, zu fragen, was vorgefallen war He wae itching to ask what had happened |
| reference | Duden | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 14690) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | зудеть (zudet') + Inf. | |
| meaning 1 | to itch | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to want | Хотя прежде-то зудело сбегать к заначке: жива ли, родимая?
Вы можете себе представить, как меня зудит спросить у Вас «что?» First of all he was itching to go check on his stash: is it still there? You can imagine how badly I am itching to ask you "what is it?" |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
Cf. also the Hungarian viszket 'to itch' and such expressions as viszket a talpa 'he wants to dance' (lit. 'his feet are itching'), viszket a marka / a tenyere 'he wants to slap someone' (lit. 'his palm is itching') - оформить как реализацию!
Cf. also Rus. он не почесался (сделать что-л.)