grief, sorrow to feel pity 2 realizations
NEW Realization 1
type Cognates
language 1 Bulgarian
language 2 Russian
lexeme 1 жал
lexeme 2 жалость
meaning 1 grief, sorrow
direction
meaning 2 pity
reference Fasmer 1986: II, 35
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The meaning ‘grief, sorrow’is diachronically primary, cf. Czech žal, Slovak žial’, Pol. żal ‘grief, sorrow’

NEW Realization 2
type Polysemy
language Ukrainian
lexeme жаль
meaning 1 grief, sorrow
direction
meaning 2 to feel pity
reference Il'in 1971: 194
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