[Lexicog] extinguish ~ die

[Hayim Sheynin]

Dear Wayne,

I think you are right. So Russian pogasit' / pogasat' usually translated by
English Passive voice
to be extinguished or by a paraphrase "to go out."

Hayim Sheynin

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Wayne Leman <wayne_leman at sil.org> 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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