light (vs. heavy)
→
easy / simple
22 realizations
Multi-area
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 366 | Dual Opposition | heavy (vs. light) | → | difficult | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 (ID: 447) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Amharic | |
| lexeme | ḳällal | |
| meaning 1 | light (in weight) | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | simplified | fərdu ḳällal näw The case is simple. |
| reference | AED: 677 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 (ID: 3942) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | tʻetʻew (թեթև) | |
| meaning 1 | light | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | simple, easy | |
| reference | Galstjan 1984: 246 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 (ID: 7747) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Arabic | |
| lexeme | هَفَّ ḫaffa | |
| meaning 1 | to be light of weight | ḫaffa l-mīzān-u The balance had one of its two scales light, so that it rose. |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | to be light, or easy, to be alleviated | ḫaffat ḥāl-u-hu His state, or condition, was, or became, light, little encumbered, easy, or elleviated. |
| reference | Lane: 769-770 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 (ID: 20060) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | lak | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy, simple | lak zadatak easy task |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 (ID: 11062) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme | let | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy | let opgave an easy task |
| reference | DDO | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 (ID: 48181) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | leicht | |
| meaning 1 | light (vs. heavy) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy / simple | |
| reference | DWDS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 (ID: 11821) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme | könnyű | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | könnyű teher light load |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy, simple | könnyű kérdés a simple question |
| reference | Гальди 1974: 420 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 (ID: 11064) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme | léttur | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | hann bar létta byrði á bakinu he carried a light load on his back |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy, simple | flestar spurningarnar á prófinu voru léttar most of the questions in the test were simple |
| reference | ISLEX | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 (ID: 33892) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Itelmen | |
| lexeme | әмсхулаӽ | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | мэсок әмсхулаӽ light bag |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy | соњԓэс, вэтвэт әмсхулаӽ easy life, work |
| reference | PIRS: 311 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 (ID: 38916) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Komi-Permyak | |
| lexeme | кокнит | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy, simple | кокнит удж, кокнит задача easy work, easy task |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | https://dict.fu-lab.ru/term?tid=1288240 |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 14 (ID: 4219) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Mandarin Chinese | |
| lexeme | qīng (輕) | |
| meaning 1 | light | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy, simple | |
| reference | BKRS: 213 English Wiktionary | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 (ID: 11061) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Norwegian | |
| lexeme | lett | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | en lett bør a light load |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | simple | et lett arbeid simple work |
| reference | BO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 19 (ID: 11063) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme | lätt | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | en lätt väska a light bag |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy | det är lätt för dig att säga it is easy for you to say |
| reference | SAO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 20 (ID: 9830) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Tigrinya | |
| lexeme | fäkkʷis | |
| meaning 1 | light, lightweight | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | easy, plain, simple | |
| reference | TED: 2715 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 21 (ID: 23174) | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | hafif | |
| meaning 1 | light (of weight) | hafif bavul light (not heavy) suitcase |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | easy | hafif bir iş easy work |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 374 | |
| comment | ||