beautiful
→
very, of high degree
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | pretty | |
| meaning 1 | beautiful | Maria looks much prettier with her hair cut short. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very | Dinner at Luigi’s sounds pretty good to me. |
| reference | LDOCE | |
| comment | The two meanings of the English word are actually less "intense" than the semantic labels, since pretty 1 can also mean 'fairly' and pretty 2 means more 'visually pleasant' than 'beautiful'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | szépen | |
| meaning 1 | beautiful | Szépen énekel, mosolyog Sings, smiles beautifully |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very | Szépen keres. Köszönöm szépen! Earns a lot. Thank you very much! |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | лепо (lepo) | |
| meaning 1 | beautifully | лепо изгледати to look beautiful |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | very | Nema pitanja, hvala lepo što ste došli. No questions, thank you very much for coming. |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 636 CLARIN.SI | |
| comment | ||