грудь

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic грѫдь (grǫdĭ), from Proto-Slavic *grǫdь, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰrendʰ-.

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Noun

грудь (grudʹf inan (genitive груди́ or гру́ди*, nominative plural гру́ди, genitive plural груде́й, relational adjective грудно́й, diminutive гру́дка) (* Dated.)

  1. chest
  2. breast, bosom
  3. thorax

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References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “грудь”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “грудь”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 222
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1893) “грѫдь”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎ (in Russian), volume 1 (А – К), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 600

Ukrainian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic грѫдь (grǫdĭ), from Proto-Slavic *grǫdь, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰrendʰ-.

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Noun

грудь (hrudʹf inan (genitive гру́ді, nominative plural гру́ді, genitive plural гру́дей)

  1. (colloquial) female breast, boob

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