tail
→
surveillance
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | tail | |
| lexeme 2 | to tail | |
| meaning 1 | tail | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | surveillance | I'm being tailed |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Japanese | |
| lexeme 1 | bi (尾) | |
| lexeme 2 | bikō suru (尾行する) | |
| meaning 1 | tail | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to tail, shadow | アルカイダを尾行する時も こんなヘマしないわよね？ Are you guys this sloppy when you tail Al-Qaeda? |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Polish | |
| lexeme | ogon | |
| meaning 1 | tail | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | a person secrectly following someone | Rower przydał mi się w stanie wojennym i w późniejszej działalności w opozycji. Jadąc na nim stosunkowo łatwo można było zgubić ubecki ogon, wjeżdżając w jednokierunkową ulicę, przechodnią bramę czy w park. (NKJP: Galicyjskie pierogi, Poliyka, nr 2359, 2002-07-20) |
| reference | WSJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | хвост | |
| meaning 1 | tail | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | surveillance | Похоже,
за мной хвост. Кругом одни шпионы. Looks like I'm being tailed. There are spies all around. |
| reference | NRC | |
| comment | ||
Udmurt быж 'tail', '(figurative) about person who follows someone closely'