different between chest vs bahut

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheste, chiste, from Old English ?est, ?ist (“chest, casket; coffin; rush basket; box”), from Proto-West Germanic *kistu (“chest, box”), from Latin cista (“chest, box”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?, “chest, box, basket, hamper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kisteh? (“woven container”).

Germanic cognates include Scots kist (“chest, box, trunk, coffer”), West Frisian kiste (“box, chest”), Dutch kist (“box, case, chest, coffin”), German Kiste (“box, crate, case, chest”).

Alternative forms

• chist (obsolete)

Noun

chest (plural chests)

1. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

4. A chest of drawers.
6. (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.

7. A hit or blow made with one's chest.

Synonyms

• (the thorax): breast
• (box): trunk

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

chest (third-person singular simple present chests, present participle chesting, simple past and past participle chested)

1. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
2. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.

Derived terms

• chest down

Etymology 2

From Middle English chest, cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from Old English ??ast, ??as (“strife, quarrel, quarrelling, contention, murmuring, sedition, scandal; reproof”). Related to Old Frisian k?se (“strife, contention”), Old Saxon caest (“quarrel, dispute”), Old High German k?sa (“speech, story, account”).

Noun

chest (plural chests)

1. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

Anagrams

• Tesch, chets, techs

Friulian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *(ec)cu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Ladin chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo, Romanian acest, French cet, Catalan aquest.

Pronoun

chest m (f cheste, m pl chescj, f pl chestis)

1. this

See also

• chel

Ladin

Alternative forms

• chëst

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Friulian chest, Romansch quest, Italian questo.

Adjective

chest m (feminine singular chesta, masculine plural chisc, feminine plural chestes)

1. this
2. (in the plural) these

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?east, ceas (“quarrel, strife”).

Alternative forms

• cheste, cheeste, cheaste, chyaste, chast

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

chest (plural chestes)

2. fighting, strife, battle
3. quarrelling, disputation
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     And þe Erldome of enuye · and wratthe togideres / With þe chastelet of chest · and chateryng oute of resoun.

4. (rare) turmoil, discord

Descendants

• English: chest

References

• “ch?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-26.

Etymology 2

From Old French geste.

Noun

chest

2. Alternative form of geste (“tale”)

Etymology 3

From Old English ?est.

Noun

chest

2. Alternative form of cheste (“chest”)

Old French

Adjective

chest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cheste)

1. Picardy form of cist

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/

Verb

chest

1. Aspirate mutation of cest.

Mutation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bahut, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??h?t/, /b??hu?t/

Noun

bahut (plural bahuts)

1. (obsolete) A portable coffer or chest with a rounded lid covered in leather, garnished with nails, once used for the transport of clothes or other personal luggage. It was the original portmanteau.
2. (obsolete, architecture) A dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade.

Usage notes

Towards the end of the 17th century, the name fell into disuse and was replaced by coffer, which probably accounts for its misuse by the French romantic writers of the early 19th century. They applied it to almost any antique sideboard, cupboard or wardrobe, and its use became hopelessly confused.

References

• Bahut in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• thaub

French

Etymology

From Old French bahur. Further origin unknown, most hypotheses being weak in one respect or another (cf. Further reading below). Bratchet suggests Middle High German behut (“hutch for provisions”) or Frankish *bagh?di, *bagh?di (“sideboard”), from Proto-Germanic *bagg- (possibly related to Old Norse baggi, Proto-Germanic *pakkô) + *h?diz (“hide, protection”).

Compare Italian baule, Ladino baul, Portuguese baú.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.y/

Noun

bahut m (plural bahuts)

1. chest; sideboard
2. (school slang) school
3. (colloquial) lorry, truck; (taxi) cab

Further reading

• “bahut” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References