to skin, flay
→
to rob
3 realizations
MACROAREA: Eurasia
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | nyúz | |
| meaning 1 | to skin, flay | birkát nyúz, nyulat nyúz to skin a sheep, to skin a rabbit |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to continuously take a lot of money from somebody; to extort, to blackmail | 1. A bankok nyúzták a gazdákat. 2.Némely ügyvéd nyúzta ügyfeleit. 3. A magyarokat nemcsak a török nyúzza, hanem az osztrák is. (Gárdonyi Géza) 1. The banks ripped off the farmers. 2. Some lawyers ripped off their clients. 3. Hungarians are ripped off not only by the Turks, but also by the Austrians. (Géza Gárdonyi) |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | beli | |
| meaning 1 | to skin, flay | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to rob | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | From Latin vello, vellere 'to pluck out (feathers etc), to depilate, to pull or tear down; to demolish' | |
| NEW Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | soymak | |
| meaning 1 | to skin, flay | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to rob | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||