<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hello everybody,</div><div> </div><div>A friend of mine, in France, lost one of his children a few years ago. </div><div> </div><div>He then noticed that in most languages we know, there are words to name a person who lost their wife or husband (widow in English), and a child who lost his parents (orphan), but there is no word to name a person who lost their child...</div><div> </div><div>This appeared unfortunate to him and he proceeded to try to convince the French Academy to create such a word. The Academy is OK with the idea, but they first asked him whether such a word exists in other languages.</div><div> </div><div>So I thought I would send an email to the RNLD list, since it reaches a bunch of linguists who have studied a whole lot of languages... If any of you happens to
have heard of such a word in any language, would you please get back to me ? And if you haven't, please, send the word out !</div><div> </div><div>Thanks !</div><div> </div><div>Rozenn</div></div></body></html>