always
→
still (adv.)
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | still | |
| Meaning 1 | (archaic, poetic) always | Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion. (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, 1609), Chemists would be rich if they could still do in great quantities what they have sometimes done in little. ( Robert Boyle, Unsucceeding Experiments, 1661) |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | still (adv.) | |
| Reference | <personally collected data> | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | toujours | |
| Meaning 1 | always | Quand il vient à Paris, il passe toujours me voir. When he comes to Paris, he always comes over. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | still (adv.) | Je ne suis toujours pas satisfait. I am still not satisfied. |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Semantic evolution | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | todavía | |
| Meaning 1 | (dated) always | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | still | ¿Estás todavía escribiendo?
Are you still writing? |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | from toda 'all' + via 'way' | |