lap
→
vagina
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latin | |
| lexeme | gremium | |
| meaning 1 | a person's lap or bosom (esp. as the place in which a child, etc., is held) | in gremio matris sedere 'to sit in the mother's lap' |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | the female genital parts | misisse in gremium imbrem aureum 'he emitted into the lap golden rain' |
| reference | Glare: 777 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Slovak | |
| lexeme | lono | |
| meaning 1 | lap | |
| direction | — | |
| meaning 2 | internal and external female genital organs | |
| reference | ESSJa: 16, 32-35 | |
| comment | The same in Czech, Low Sorbian, Polish, Old East Slavic. The meaning 'lap, bosom' is common in Slavic languages. Also 'womb', 'male genital parts, testiculi', 'lower part of belly' etc.. | |