Universal #1665

Legacy number: 1665

 Number  1660
 Original  In no language, the most common word for ‘first generation descendant’ is not the same as the most common word for ‘person who has not reached puberty’ (i.e. ‘child’).
 Standardized  The most common word for ‘first generation descendant’ is always the same as the most common word for ‘person who has not reached puberty’ (i.e. ‘child’).
 Keywords  kinship
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed by Dahl & Koptjevskaja-Tamm
 Source  Dahl & Koptjevskaja-Tamm (forthcoming)

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Thommy · 12 Jul 2013
The standardized version used to be: "The most common word for ‘first generation descendant’ is never the same as the most common word for ‘person who has not reached puberty’ (i.e. ‘child’).", which did not correspond to the original version in Dahl and Koptjevskaja-Tamm. Thanks to Claudia Wegener for pointing that out.