to touch
→
to harm, damage
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 2892 | touched | → | mad, insane | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | massa | |
| meaning 1 | to touch (with hand) | massat bi-ka raḥim-u fulān-in The relationship of such a one is near to you. (as touching implies proximity) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to strike, to smote, to afflict | lan tamassanā n-nār-u The fire of hell will not smite us! (Qur. ii 74, iii 23) |
| reference | Lane: 2711-2712 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Khoekhoe | |
| lexeme | tsâǀkhā | |
| meaning 1 | to touch | ǁîs ge ǂnamsa tsaurase ra ǃkhōǀkhā She is touching the blanket softly. (lit. She continuously is touching) |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to harm, to damage | koro haidi ge nawab xa go tsâǀkhāhe Five trees were hit by thunder. |
| reference | <personally collected data> Haacke Khoekhoe 2002: 139 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | dokun- | |
| meaning 1 | to touch | çocuğa dokunmayınız! don't touch the kid |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to harm, to damage | bana denize girmek dokunur sea bathes are harmful for me |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 240 | |
| comment | ||