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some (most?) languages have a single bidirectional word
by catherd 5y ago
some (most?) languages have a single bidirectional word
- Cederfjard 5y agoIn Swedish for example, “att låna” is ”to borrow”, and ”att låna ut” is ”to lend” (”to loan out”).
- namibj 5y agoGerman leihen is loan, while verleihen is lend. The "ver" is akin to "away", i.e., "loan away" (though this isn't a 1:1 translation and only works for one of the meanings on both sides of the language barrier).
- skydhash 5y agoIn Haitian creole, if the main object of the verbe “prete” is a person, it means loan, and the second object says what. If it’s only one non person object, it means borrow.