loins

Japanese: loins
loins

…Lende (German) includes not only the hips and buttocks, but also the thighs. Loins (English) is also the plural form of the waist, just like lombes (French), but the word waist is more familiar to Japanese people. Waist comes from the Old English weaxan, which is the same as the German wachsen (to grow), and from there indicates the growth of the human body from top to bottom. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "loins" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…Lende(ドイツ語)には〈こし〉と尻のほかに大腿部まで含まれる。loins(英語)もlombes(フランス語)同様複数形の腰であるが,日本人にはウェストwaistのほうがなじみがある。waistはドイツ語wachsen(成長する)と同意の古代英語weaxanに由来し,そこから人体が上下に成長したことを示す。…

※「loins」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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