lame
→
bad
7 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Ancient Greek | |
| Lexeme | χωλός | |
| Meaning 1 | lame person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (figuratively) maimed, imperfect, defective | |
| Reference | LSJ | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | lame | |
| Meaning 1 | lame person | The accident left him lame for life. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | bad, nasty, boring, ineffective | a lame school; a lame excuse; lame racist jokes |
| Reference | Merriam-Webster | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | clocher | |
| Meaning 1 | to limp | Qu'a donc ce coquin à clocher sur un pied? (Nerval, Faust, 1840, p. 88). Why is this rascal limping on one leg? |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be bad, to not work properly | ce raisonnement cloche this reasoning is weak |
| Reference | CNRTL | |
| Comment | The first meaning is obsolete; if used in it, the verb applies mostly to inanimate objects such as a chair, an armchair etc. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | French | |
| Lexeme | boiter | |
| Meaning 1 | to limp, be lame | boiter du pied droit to be lame on the right leg |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be bad, to not work properly | raisonnement qui boite a weak reasoning |
| Reference | Larousse online | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Russian | |
| Lexeme | хромать | |
| Meaning 1 | to limp, be lame | Распухла моя нога, как бревно, стал я хромать. Скиталец, Сквозь строй. My leg was swollen like a log and I began to limp. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be bad, imperfect | В зимние месяцы аварий было больше, чем в прошлом году, технология хромала. Крымов, Инженер. There were more accidents this winter than last year, the technology was imperfect. |
| Reference | MAS | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | хрaмати (hramati) | |
| Meaning 1 | to limp, to be lame | хрaмати на десну ногу to limp on the right foot |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | to be bad, imperfect | хрaмати из математике (у математици) to be bad at maths |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 1471 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Spanish | |
| Lexeme | cojo | |
| Meaning 1 | lame person | |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | (of an immaterial thing) poorly founded, or incomplete | razonamiento cojo lame reasoning |
| Reference | DRAE | |
| Comment | ||