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| Apr 19, 2022 at 15:36 | comment | added | jlawler | You demand that there be only one reason for a continent-wide tendency? Nothing is that simple. And there are plenty more reasons for the HEAD metaphor; as we've known for a long time, the human body and its parts, being the only thing all humans have in common, are the common source of almost all metaphors, and is certainly implicated here. What, after all, is the measure of all things? | |
| Apr 14, 2022 at 4:33 | comment | added | Keelan | This explanation doesn’t work for Dutch kopje, used for the heading of smaller sections and sections themselves. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 20:40 | comment | added | Seninha | So until now we have 3 proposed semantic developments: Chapter is named thus because it's the main (head) parts of a book (your proposal); chapter is named after the book's orientation (Luke's proposal); and it is named after the heading, a short paragraph which identifies a chapter (my proposal). I still haven't found a etymological dictionary explaining the correct semantic evolution. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 14:16 | history | answered | Henno Brandsma | CC BY-SA 3.0 |