Tags · Domain Obligation Being bound to act — orders, compliance, duty. Topics with this tag Pathway How does “listen” come to mean “obey”? Verbs of hearing and listening repeatedly grow a sense of obeying. The pattern recurs from Mandarin tīnghuà and Japanese iu koto o kiku to Latin oboedīre, built on audīre “to hear”, behind French obéir and English obey. PerceptionObligationColexificationMetonymy +1 From hearing words to obedience → More in this facet Existence 4Location 2Possession 5Alienability 1Negation 4Indefiniteness 1Quantification 2Comparison 1Perception 2Tense and aspect 1Modality 1Device operation 1Grammatical relations 2Benefaction 1Spatial relation 1
