Zwerchfell.
diaphragm
Meaning & usage
diaphragm
midriff
the seat of human emotion, the heart
the organ involved in laughter
Er hat mein Zwerchfell erschüttert
Where this word comes from
zwerch + Fell, where zwerch is an Upper German variant of quer (“crosswise”) preserved only in a few compounds, and Fell is used in the older sense of “hide” extended to a membrane. The sense “seat of human emotion” was acquired as a calque of Ancient Greek φρήν (phrḗn).
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