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*ḥaḏVy- - breast
(SED I No. 112)
Note likely related forms, with different shifts of meaning, in various Sem. languages (Arb., ESA: Min., Eth.: Gez., Amh.)
Words
Hebrew
ḥāzǟ
- breast
(HALOT 301)
Biblical Aramaic
ḥădṓhī
- chest
(HALOT 1704)
pl.? du.? suff
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḥadyā
- breast, chest, bosom
(Jastrow 426)
note ḥzy, det. ḥzyyh ‘breast’ [DJPA. 194] (< Hbr., «most probably an artifcial word» [ibid.]).
Syriac
ḥadyā
- breast
(LSyr. 216, SL 415)
Mandaic
hadia
- breast, chest
(MD 116)
Mlaḥso
ḥazyo
- chest
(Jastrow 1994:177)
Arabic
ḥiḏāˀa, ḥiḏwata
- in front of
(Lane 537)