Universal #1185

Legacy number: 1185

 Number  1181
 Original  If there is a separate term for ‘foot’, then there is also one for ‘hand’, but not vice versa.
 Standardized  IF there is a separate term for ‘foot’, THEN there is also one for ‘hand’.
 Formula  ‘foot’ ⇒ ‘hand’
 Keywords  body parts
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  41 languages in Brown 1976 (12 American Indian languages, 10 European, 5 sub-Saharan African, 4 Mideastern and Western Asian, 5 Southeast Asian, 2 Chinese, 2 Micronesian)
 Source  Brown 1976, also mentioned in Andersen 1978: 352

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Discussion
Notes
1. The categories ‘foot’ and ‘hand’, which are often but not always labeled, never share the same label, in contrast to other ‘symmetrical’ parts of the uppeer and lower body, like ‘finger’/‘toe’. When these body parts are not labeled, the limbs are partioned at the point where the digits meet the hand or foot. (Andersen 1978) 2. Cf. #1500.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. The categories 'foot' and 'hand', which are often but not always labeled, never share the same label, in contrast to other 'symmetrical' parts of the uppeer and lower body, like 'finger'/'toe'. When these body parts are not labeled, the limbs are partioned at the point where the digits meet the hand or foot. (Andersen 1978)

2. Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1500"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">