to go out → to get immunity 1 realization Unique
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Amharic
lexeme wäṭṭa
meaning 1 to go out, go outside käbetu wäṭṭa 'he went out of the house'
direction →
meaning 2 to take (vaccine), to have had an illness which immunizes one from that illness, e.g. smallpox fänṭaṭa wäṭṭallät ‘he recoverd from smallpox (and will not get it again)’; yäwäṭṭallät käbt ‘livestock that has been vaccinated, immunized’
reference
comment (K 1583-1585); the meaning B requires an impersonal verb, and the logical subject is expressed through a pronominal suffix atteched through a benefactive suffix -ll- (lit. 'it went out for him').

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