Universal #1501

Legacy number: 1501

 Number  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

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Discussion
Notes
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).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
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).