around
→
approximately
5 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Bulgarian | |
| lexeme | около | |
| meaning 1 | around | около земята around the Earth |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | около пет човека around 5 people |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Българско-руски речник. Варна 2000. С. 501-502 |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | around | |
| meaning 1 | around | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | um || herum | |
| meaning 1 | around | um das Haus herumgehen walk around the house |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | um die 2 Mio. herum wert sein cost about 2 millions |
| reference | ABBYY LINGUO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | circa | |
| meaning 1 | around | fossas circa murum ducere make ditches around the walls |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately (about time) | circa mediam noctem around midnight |
| reference | Dvoreckij 1976 | |
| comment | Cf. Germ. circa 'approximately' |
|
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Semantic evolution | |
| language 1 | Old East Slavic | |
| language 2 | Russian | |
| lexeme | около | |
| meaning 1 | around | Оустроиша острогъ около города built a fortification around the city |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | approximately | около 100 человек about 100 people |
| reference | Sreznevskij: III, 646 | |
| comment | ||