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 +2 From hearing words to obedience → More in this facet Existence 4Location 2Possession 3Negation 4Indefiniteness 1Quantification 1Perception 2Modality 1Device operation 1Grammatical relations 1Spatial relation 1
