empty
→
vain, in vain
17 realizations
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | κενός | |
| meaning 1 | empty | κενός τάφος empty tomb |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vain | κεναί ἐλπίδες vain hopes |
| reference | LSJ Dvoreckij 1958 | |
| comment | (LJS 938) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | p‘uǰ (փուջ) | |
| meaning 1 | empty | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | useless | p‘uǰ p‘arvac (փուջ փարված) usless throw (in ball games) |
| reference | АрмРС | |
| comment | АрмРС 701 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | datark (դատարկ) | |
| meaning 1 | empty | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | vain | |
| reference | АрмРС | |
| comment | АрмРС 182 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | prazan | |
| meaning 1 | empty | prazan sanduk empty crate |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | in vain | u prazno govoriti, pucati to talk, to shoot in vain |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | vanus | |
| meaning 1 | empty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vain | vana preces vain prayer |
| reference | Dvoreckij 1976: 1056 Glare | |
| comment | (Glare 2010) | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | deşert | |
| meaning 1 | empty | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vain | |
| reference | DEX98 | |
| comment | DEX98, DRRS 1, 677-688 | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | пустой (pustoj) | |
| meaning 1 | empty | пустой дом empty house |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | vain | пустые страхи vain fears |
| reference | <personally collected data> NRC | |
| comment | Rusian Borrowing in Yakut бостуой 'in vain' (YaRS 76). Cf. Russian попусту, впустую 'in vain'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | празан (prazan) | |
| meaning 1 | empty | празна кеса, празни папир empty bag, empty paper |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | meaningless | празне речи meaningless words |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 996 | |
| comment | ||
Вероятно, курдский пример - тюркизм.