box, container → chest (body part) 2 realizations FAMILY: Indo-European
ACCEPTED Realization 1
type Polysemy
language English
lexeme chest
meaning 1 chest
meaning 2 breast, chest
reference
comment O.E. cest "box, coffer," from P.Gmc. *kista, an early borrowing from L. cista, from Gk. kiste "a box, basket," from PIE *kista "woven container." Meaning extended to "thorax" 1530, replacing breast, on the metaphor of the ribs as a box for the organs.
ACCEPTED Realization 2
type Derivation
language Russian
lexeme 1 клетка (kletka)
lexeme 2 грудная клетка (grudnaja kletka)
meaning 1 cage, square
direction —
meaning 2 chest
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