to heat up, warm up → to strike, hit 4 realizations
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Komi
lexeme шонтыны
meaning 1 to warm up ва шонтыны
to warm up water
direction —
meaning 2 to beat smn пельдiн шонтыны
to hit on one's ear
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comment Коми 737
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Lezgian
lexeme ifirun
meaning 1 to make red-hot, to heat
meaning 2 to hit heavily
reference
comment (LezgRus 143)
ACCEPTED Realization 3
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme 1 греть (gret')
lexeme 2 огреть (ogret')
meaning 1 heat a. Греть воду 'to heat water'. b. Греть ужин 'to warm up dinner'. c. Греть руки 'to warm up one's hands'. d. Лисий мех хорошо греет 'Fox fur warms well'.
direction →
meaning 2 to hit heavily (vern.) Так бы вот тебя по лысине и огрела. (А.Островский) 'How I would love to hit you on your bald head!' (A. Ostrovsky)
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comment

Also obsolete греть 'to beat' (Anikin RES: 12, 8).

ACCEPTED Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Tigrinya
lexeme ʔarsänä
meaning 1 ‘to heat, cause to become red-hot’ (KT 554)
direction →
meaning 2 ‘ to hit s.o. (us. on the nose)’ (KT 554) ʔafənč̣u ʔarsinw
o ‘he punched him in the nose’
reference
comment (KT 554)

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