to see/to look at
↔
eye
4 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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type | Cognates | |
language 1 | Ancient Greek | |
language 2 | English | |
lexeme 1 | ὄψομαι | |
lexeme 2 | eye | |
meaning 1 | to see/to look at | |
direction | — | |
meaning 2 | eye | |
reference | <personally collected data> | |
comment | ὄψομαι is first-person singular future indicative middle of ὁράω ὄψομαι < Proto-Hellenic *óťťomai < Proto-Indo-European *h₃ékʷ-yeh₁-tor eye
< Proto-West Germanic *augā < Proto-Germanic *augô 'eye' <
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs 'eye' < *h₃okʷ-, *h₃ekʷ- 'eye; to see'. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 775 Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill |
ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Khoekhoe | |
lexeme | mû | |
meaning 1 | to see/to look at | |
direction | — | |
meaning 2 | eye | |
reference | Haacke Khoekhoe 2002: 91 | |
comment | Conversion from one part of speech to another. |
ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
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type | Derivation | |
language | Russian | |
lexeme 1 | глядеть | |
lexeme 2 | гляделки | |
meaning 1 | to see/to look at | |
direction | → | |
meaning 2 | (slang, plural) eyes | разуй гляделки! |
reference | <personally collected data> | |
comment |
NEW Realization 4 | ||
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type | Polysemy | |
language | Russian | |
lexeme 1 | глазеть | |
lexeme 2 | глаз | |
meaning 1 | (colloquial) to look at | |
direction | ← | |
meaning 2 | eye | |
reference | <personally collected data> | |
comment |