to conceive, become pregnant
↔
to conceive, form in the mind
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Classical Armenian | |
| lexeme | yłanam (յղանամ) | |
| meaning 1 | to conceive, become pregnant | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to conceive (an idea) | |
| reference | Petrosean, Matatʿeay 1879 Awetikʿean et al. 1836-37 | |
| comment | In Modern Armenian hġanal (հղանալ) 'to conceive, to concoct (an idea)', hġianal (հղիանալ) 'to become pregnant' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | conceive | |
| meaning 1 | to conceive, become pregnant | conceive a child |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to make, create | a project conceived by the company's founder |
| reference | Merriam-Webster | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | concevoir | |
| meaning 1 | to conceive, become pregnant | une femme qui a passé l'âge de concevoir a woman past the age of conception |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | to make, create | Le maréchal, qui n'avait qu'une poignée d'hommes, conçut un plan pour l'exécution duquel il lui aurait fallu trente mille soldats (Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe) The marshal, who had only a handful of men, conceived a plan for the execution of which he would have needed thirty thousand soldiers (Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe) |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | concipio, concipere | |
| meaning 1 | to conceive, become pregnant | |
| direction | ← | |
| meaning 2 | to conceive, form in the mind | |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | ||
Mostly about plans, ideas, concepts, i.e. intangible objects