to see/to look at
→
to live, be alive
1 realization
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
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| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Malak-Malak | |
| lexeme | datma | |
| meaning 1 | look continuously, look again, watch | 1) kaduken dat-ma yuyu
2) wiyang yuenduen datma yida
3) pitja datma enue 1) it looks over there/yonder 2) his mother was watching 3)I watch TV |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | alive, living | jung/dema datma wuete the tree, the wallaby is alive |
| reference | Lindsay et al. 2017: 27 | |
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