« to pull » en sept langues
Sensto pull
Espagnol
/tiˈɾaɾ/
héréditaire
Also 'to throw' and 'to throw away': tirar la basura. Doors say Tirar or Tire.
Français
/tiʁe/
héréditaire
Also 'to shoot' (a gun). Doors say Tirez.
Italien
/tiˈrare/
héréditaire
Doors say Tirare.
Portugais
/puˈʃah/
autre source · Latin PULSĀRE 'to push, beat'
A meaning flip: puxar comes from PULSĀRE 'to push', the verb behind French pousser. Doors say Puxe.
Roumain
/ˈtradʒe/
autre source · Latin TRAHERE 'to draw, drag'
Catalan
/əstiˈɾa/
héréditaire
Es- + tirar; Catalan tirar alone usually means 'to throw'. Doors say Estireu.
Anglais
/pʊl/
anglais natif · Old English pullian
Attention : faux amis
push (Anglais) signifie « to push » · puxar (Portugais) signifie « to pull »
The cruellest trap on a door: both come from Latin PULSĀRE 'to push, beat' (English via Old French pousser). Portuguese turned the sense round to 'pull'; PUXE on a Brazilian door means pull.
L’ancêtre
Romance tirare (origin unknown)‘to pull, draw’
Les six sœurs en descendent, sauf indication contraire ci-dessous.
L’histoire
All three share a verb whose source nobody has settled. It is a busy word: Spanish tirar also throws things away, French tirer also fires a gun.
L’apprendre
Dans une phrase
- es¡Tira de la cuerda!
- frTire sur la corde !
- itTira la corda!
- ptPuxa a corda!
- roTrage de frânghie!
- caEstira la corda!
- enPull the rope!
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