Universal #2021

Legacy number: 2021

 Number  2015
 Original  All languages have a word for FEEL, undifferentiated between "bodily feelings" (sensations) and "cognitively based" feelings ("emotions"), and distinct from THINK.
 Standardized  There is a word for FEELING (verb, adjective, or noun), undifferentiated between "bodily feelings" (sensations) and "cognitively based" feelings ("emotions"), and distinct from THINKING.
 Keywords  sensation, emotion, cognition, word class
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  "working hypothesis ... on evidence gleaned from both cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies"
 Source  Wierzbicka 1999: 275-279

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Discussion
Notes
There is a very common pattern of polysemy linking FEEL with 'liver', 'insides', or 'stomach'.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
There is a very common pattern of polysemy linking FEEL with 'liver', 'insides', or 'stomach'.