to fall down
→
to fall in love
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme | falde | |
| meaning 1 | to fall down | falde på gulvet to fall to the floor |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to fall in love with | falde for to fall in love with |
| reference | DDO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | fall | |
| lexeme 2 | fall in love | |
| meaning 1 | to move to a lower position under the effect of gravity | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme | falla | |
| meaning 1 | to fall down | bollinn féll á gólfið og brotnaði the cup fell down and came to pieces |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to be keen of | mér fellur vel við hana; ég féll strax fyrir litla húsinu með rauða þakinu I like being with her; I immediately fell in love with the little house with a red roof |
| reference | ISLEX | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme 1 | ochiru (落ちる) | |
| lexeme 2 | ai-ni ochiru (恋に落ちる落ちる) | |
| meaning 1 | to fall | 彼の車は、川に落ちる前に数回ひっくりかえった。 His car turned over several times before falling into the river. |
| meaning 2 | to fall in love | 彼はしばしば恋に落ちる。 He often falls in love. |
| reference | ||
| comment | EDICT. The Japanese expression has been most probably calqued from English. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Norwegian | |
| lexeme | falle | |
| meaning 1 | to fall down | falle på baken to fall on the ground |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to fall in love | falle for noen to fall in love with sb |
| reference | BO | |
| comment | ||