drop (n.)
→
negation marker
2 realizations
FAMILY: Indo-European
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | goutte | |
| meaning 1 | drop (n.) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (obsolete or dialectal, used with "ne") not, not at all, not a drop | Il ne parloit goutte He did not talk at all |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Latin | |
| language 2 | Romansh | |
| lexeme | gutta | |
| meaning 1 | drop (n.) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (dialectal, used with "ne") not, not at all, not a drop | Nus nu vains ngueta (< ne-gutta) We didn't see anything |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||