Universal 1497:
- Original
- All languages name ‘(finger)nail’ and ‘(toe)nail’.
- Standardized
- All languages name ‘(finger)nail’ and ‘(toe)nail’.
- Keywords
- body part
- Domain
- lexicon
- Type
- unconditional
- Status
- achronic
- Quality
- absolute
- Basis
- languages mentioned in Andersen 1978
- Source
- Andersen 1978: 352
- Counterexamples
For the categories ‘fingernail/toenail’, only two patterns occur: either the same basic term (analogous to English ‘nail’) is applied to both categories, or different terms are derived from a common root, as in English or Thai (lap mur/lap tin) (Andersen 1978: 354).