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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Dear Nino,<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">"The Database of semantic shifts in the
languages of the world" (currently developed at the Institute of Linguistics,
Moscow) contains a number of examples showing relation between 'hear' and
'understand'. Some of these have already been mentioned in this thread. Others
include the following (all data are extracted from dictionaries or other primary
sources):<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Koryak valomək - polysemy
'hear'-'understand'<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Even dolǯ- - polysemy
'hear'-'understand'<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Yakut isit- - polysemy
'hear'-'understand'<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Itelmen elfses - polysemy
'hear'-'understand'<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">(some of the transcriptions may be not fully
adequate, because they are in fact transliterations from the Cyrillic
orthography of languages)<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Kolyma Yukaghir möd - polysemy
'hear'-'understand'<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Amharic sämma - polysemy
'hear'-'understand'<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font face="Courier New" size="2">Tigrinya sämʕe - polysemy
'hear'-'understand'<o:p></o:p></font>
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<div><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><font color="black">Best
regards,<o:p></o:p></font></font>
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<div><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><font color="black"><o:p> </o:p></font></font>
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<div><font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><font color="black">Dima<o:p></o:p></font></font>
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