grief, sorrow
→
to feel pity
10 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 34973) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Bulgarian | |
| lexeme | жал | |
| meaning 1 | grief, sorrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | pity | |
| reference | Fasmer 1986: II, 35 | |
| comment | The meaning ‘grief, sorrow’is diachronically primary, cf. Czech žal, Slovak žial’, Pol. żal ‘grief, sorrow’ |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 (ID: 45704) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | žaliti | |
| meaning 1 | to grieve | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to feel pity, to regret | |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 45555) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme 1 | Leid | |
| lexeme 2 | bemitleiden | |
| meaning 1 | grief, sorrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to feel pity | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 (ID: 48562) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme | aware (哀れ) | |
| meaning 1 | grief, sorrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to feel pity | |
| reference | BJaRS: 1, 3 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 (ID: 45703) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | жалити (žaliti) | |
| meaning 1 | to grieve | жалити за погинулим сином to mourn the death of one's son |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to feel pity, to regret | Жали што се нису видели. He regrets not having seen them. |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 365 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 (ID: 46394) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Seychellois Creole | |
| lexeme | lapenn | |
| meaning 1 | grief | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | pity | |
| reference | World Loanword Database | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 45556) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | pena | |
| meaning 1 | grief, sorrow | pena profunda black sorrow |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to feel pity | me da pena esa gente I feel sorry for those people. |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 (ID: 34972) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ukrainian | |
| lexeme | жаль | |
| meaning 1 | grief, sorrow | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to feel pity | |
| reference | Il'in 1971: 194 | |
| comment | ||
Bulgarian __ bulg1262 žalost grief, sorrow, sadness pity 0.34
Welsh pitïaf: pitïo to pity, take pity on bewail, grieve 0.42
English Cognate English _ Old English sadden (v.) __ sadian to make sorrowful to become sad 0.61