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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