lap
→
vagina
2 realizations
Related shifts
ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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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 | ||
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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.. |