to go out
→
to get immunity
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| 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'). | |