to tread
→
to oppress
2 realizations
FAMILY: Afro-Asiatic
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 820 | to tread | → | to destroy, annihilate | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 6936) | ||
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| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Akkadian | |
| lexeme | darāsu | |
| meaning 1 | to trample upon | u sīsû lā mār ugāri idarrisa qar[bāti] But the horse, not at home on the commons, tramples the field. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to press hard, to treat harshly | ina awātim lā idarrisūšunti They should not treat them harshly in the affair. |
| reference | CAD: d 110-111 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 9016) | ||
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| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | räggäṭä | |
| meaning 1 | to trample, step on, tread on | säw sirägṭäw dəḳəḳ yəlal When s.o. steps on it, it crumples to bits. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to subjugate | səlṭanun č̣äbṭän yäʔityoṗyan həzb əndärägg̈äṭən ənnor näbbär We used to live holding on to power and keeping the Ethiopian people in subjection. |
| reference | AED: 419 | |
| comment | ||