[Lexicog] extinguish ~ die
David Joffe
david.joffe at TSHWANEDJE.COM
Tue Feb 17 00:16:09 UTC 2009
Hmm .. a fire flickers / flickers out / fades / flickers and fades.
Probably not quite what you're looking for, but the closest I can
think of off the top of my head.
- David
On 16 Feb 2009 at 12:23, Wayne Leman wrote:
>
> I'm having a senior moment, or maybe it reflects an actual lexical
> lacuna in English. Anyway, right now I can't think of an English word
> for what happens to a fire if no more fuel is added to it. Of course,
> we can say that it "dies." And I am including 'die' and 'go out'
> glosses in a Russian dialect dictionary I am working on. But I would
> also like to include a gloss, if there is one, which is not
> semantically extended from its core meaning, as "die" and 'go out' are
> in English. I think that "extinguish" is only transitive. Does it have
> an intransitive counterpart of any kind, even if it is a different
> lexeme?
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
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