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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
ḥadyā - breast, chest, bosom
(Jastrow 426)
note ḥzy, det. ḥzyyh ‘breast’ [DJPA. 194] (< Hbr., «most probably an artifcial word» [ibid.]).
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PWS
*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.)