hazy, turbid, opaque
→
suspicious, questionable
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | louche | |
| meaning 1 | vague, turbid, hazy | Ce vin est louche; ciel louche This wine is not clear, cloudy skies |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | bad; suspicious, troubling | un type louche; une histoire louche an odd guy, an odd story |
| reference | Larousse online | |
| comment | The first meaning of the adjective is 'squint-eyed'. | |
| NEW Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | мутный | |
| meaning 1 | hazy, turbid, opaque | Пруд был еще не велик и мутен... А. Кожевников, Живая вода The pond was yet small and turbid... |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | suspicious, questionable | Бизнес у него какой-то мутный был в начале перестройки. [Наталья Харпалёва. Второй срок (2015)] He had some suspicious business in the beginning of the perestroika. |
| reference | MAS NRC | |
| comment | ||