#9554
steep
→
difficult
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 | |
| 1881 | steep | → | severe, harsh | Open |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Eka | |
| lexeme | so̠²¹ | |
| meaning 1 | steep | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | difficult | |
| reference | CLICS-3 | |
| comment | Yijiacun variety |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | arduus | |
| meaning 1 | steep | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | difficult | |
| reference | Lewis, Short | |
| comment | From a Proto-Italic *arðwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃r̥dʰwós 'upright, high', from *h₃erdʰ- + *-wós (whence Latin -uus). Cognate with Latin arbor 'tree', Welsh ardd 'high; hill', Old Irish ard 'high; height', Ancient Greek ὀρθός 'upright, straight', Sanskrit ūrdhvá (ऊर्ध्व ) 'rising upwards, high' |
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| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Turkish | |
| lexeme | sarp | |
| meaning 1 | steep, precipitous, abrupt | Oraya ulaşınca, sarp bir yokuş var, tren orada yavaşlar. When we reach there, there's a steep gradient. The train slows down there. |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | difficult, hard | işler sarpa sardı the things went hard. |
| reference | Baskakov 1977: 754 glosbe.com | |
| comment | ||