Universal #1180
Legacy number: 1180
| Number | 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 |
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