Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Ancient Greek | |
| lexeme | ἀμφί | |
| meaning 1 | near | ἀμφί τῆς πόλιος near the city |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | ἀμφί τοῦτον τὸν χρόνον around thid time |
| reference | Dvoreckij 1958 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | near | |
| lexeme 2 | nearly | |
| meaning 1 | near | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | An unemployment rate of nearly 10% |
| reference | NRC | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Microevolution | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme 1 | approximate | |
| lexeme 2 | approximate | |
| meaning 1 | near | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximate | |
| reference | Harper's Etymonline | |
| comment | From Late Latin approximatus, past participle of approximare ‘to come near to’. The meaning ‘near in accuracy or correctness’ is by 1816. (https://www.etymonline.com/word/approximately) |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | close | |
| meaning 1 | near | The house is close to the park |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | Close to a 100 people came today to our impromptu rally |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | circa | |
| meaning 1 | near | sedem capere circa Lesbum insulam settle near the island of Lesbos |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | circa mediam noctem around midnight |
| reference | Dvoreckij 1976 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme | perto de | |
| meaning 1 | near | Eu morava num lugar perto de El Cairum contou
I lived in a village near El Cairum saidI lived in a village near El Cairum said |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | perto de 80% about 80% |
| reference | NRC | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | около | |
| meaning 1 | near | гостиница около вокзала hotel near the station |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | там было около 100 человек there were about 100 people there |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme 1 | близко | |
| lexeme 2 | приблизительно | |
| meaning 1 | near | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Spanish | |
| lexeme | cerca de | |
| meaning 1 | near | Fermín miró atrás y apreció un gran resplandor alzándose cerca de la plaza de Cataluña Fermin looked back and saw a great glow rising near Plaza Cataluña |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | había cerca de cien personas There were about a hundred people |
| reference | NRC | |
| comment | ||