Meaning 11.77: to hire

Description: ‘employ’
Typical context: We need to hire/employ more workers if we want to finish the task in time.
Semantic field: Possession
Semantic category: Verb
Borrowed score
Borrowed score

This gives the average borrowed score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following borrowed scores are assigned to words depending on the degree of likelihood of borrowing:

 
score
1. clearly borrowed
1.00
2. probably borrowed
0.75
3. perhaps borrowed
0.50
4. very little evidence for borrowing
0.25
5. no evidence for borrowing
0.00

:		 0.38
Age score
Age score

This gives the average age score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following age scores are assigned to words depending on the estaimated age of their age class:

 
score
1. first attested or reconstructed earlier than 1000
1.00
2. earlier than 1500
0.90
3. earlier than 1800
0.80
4. earlier than 1900
0.70
5. earlier than 1950
0.60
6. earlier than 2007
0.50

:		 0.81
Simplicity score
Simplicity score

This gives the average simplicity score of all words corresponding to this meaning. The following simplicity scores are assigned to words depending on their analyzability:

 
score
1. unanalyzable
1.00
2. semi-analyzable
0.75
3. analyzable
0.50

:		 0.78
Counterpart words in the World Loanword Database
Voc. ID Vocabulary Word Form Original Script Borrowed status Borrowed score Age score Simplicity score Source Words
16 Archi sas 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
6 Tarifiyt Berber šra 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
15 Bezhta ɬoɬil -ok’ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
12 Dutch in dienst nemen 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.80 0.50
12 Dutch aanstellen 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
13 English hire 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
31 Gurindji jalarr yuwa- 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 0.50
4 Hausa háyàa 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 1.00
30 Hawaiian limalima 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
30 Hawaiian hai 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 1.00
37 Imbabura Quechua alkilana 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.70 0.75
27 Indonesian mempekerjakan 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
27 Indonesian mengupahi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
27 Indonesian menggaji 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.90 0.50
gage ( Dutch )
gage ( French )
21 Japanese yatou 雇う 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
5 Kanuri àgə̀rìtə́ 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 1.00 0.50
kiri ( Arabic )
14 Kildin Saami pāllh’kte па̄ӆӆьктэ 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
10 Lower Sorbian pśistajiś (2) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
28 Malagasy mampiàsa 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
jasa ( Malay )
22 Mandarin Chinese gu4 雇 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
22 Mandarin Chinese gu4yong1 雇佣 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
41 Mapudungun alkilan 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
35 Otomi hmihi (2) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
35 Otomi japu̲'be̲fi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
35 Otomi renta 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.60 1.00
34 Q'eqchi' k'ehok k'anjel 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 0.50
8 Romanian a angaja 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.80 1.00
8 Romanian a tocmi 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.50 1.00
19 Sakha naymɨlaː 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 0.50
7 Seychelles Creole lwe 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.90 1.00
1 Swahili -ajiri 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 1.00 1.00
1 Swahili -kodi 2. probably borrowed 0.75 1.00 1.00
29 Takia haia 1. clearly borrowed 1.00 0.60 1.00
23 Thai câaŋ จ้าง 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 1.00 1.00
24 Vietnamese thuê 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 1.00 1.00
25 White Hmong ntiav (1) 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.50 1.00
40 Wichí ichemyenlhi 5. no evidence for borrowing 0.00 0.70 0.50
32 Yaqui takea 3. perhaps borrowed 0.50 1.00 1.00