brest
Middle English
/brøːst/, /breːst/, /brɛst/, /brɛst/
noun
Definitions
- chest, thorax
- The breast in several contexts:
- breastplate, chest plate
- womb
- The front portion of a band or troop
Etymology
Inherited from Old English brēost (chest) inherited from *breust inherited from Proto-Germanic *breustą (chest, breast).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*breustą
Gloss
chest, breast
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
胸
Emoji
🧰
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abreast English
- bluebreast English
- breast English
- breast line English
- breastband English
- breastbeam English
- breastbone English
- breasted English
- breastfast English
- breastfeed English
- breastfeeder English
- breastfeeding English
- breastflesh English
- breastful English
- breastgirth English
- breasthook English
- breastie English
- breastknot English
- breastless English
- breastlike English
- breastling English
- breastpin English
- breastplate English
- breastplough English
- breastpoint English
- breastrail English
- breastrope English
- breastshot English
- breaststrap English
- breaststroke English
- breastwear English
- breastwheel English
- breastwork English
- breasty English
- debreast English
- forebreast English
- nonbreast English
- outbreast English
- redbreast English
- unbreast English
- velvetbreast English
- *bʰrews- Proto-Indo-European
- *breustą Proto-Germanic
- ブレスト Japanese
- angbreost Old English
- breost Old English
- breostcearu Old English
- brēost Old English
- abrest Middle English
- brjóst Old Norse
- *breust gmw-pro
- abreest Scots
- breest Scots
- breestbane Scots
- briast Old Frisian
- bros Tok Pisin