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Universal 1176:

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Universal 1176:

Original
Terms for ‘pupil (of the eye)’ are most likely to be derived from nouns denoting a small human like a baby, or a child, or a diminutive humanlike object like a doll.
Standardized
Terms for ‘pupil (of the eye)’ are most likely to be derived from nouns denoting a small human like a baby, or a child, or a diminutive humanlike object like a doll.
Keywords
body part
Domain
lexicon
Type
target < source
Status
diachronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
118 languages of worldwide distribution
Source
Brown & Witkowski 1981, Wilkins 1993, Wilkins 1996, reviewed in Heine 1997: 132
Counterexamples

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  1. FP
    FP
    1. May 2020

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