[Lingtyp] Someone whose father ...

[Timur Maisak]

Dear Raffaele,
on "someone whose child has died", see some information here (although I
cannot say how reliable it is):
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-language-that-has-a-word-for-parent-that-lost-a-child

Best,
Timur Maisak

ср, 16 февр. 2022 г. в 13:37, Adam James Ross Tallman <ajrtallman at utexas.edu
>:

> Hey Simone,
>
> My first question is what does "Someone to whom a child has died" mean?
> (its not a grammatical or obviously interpretable utterance for me). Or are
> you just looking for languages with equivalents to the words *widower *and
> *orphan*. Perhaps clarify with a kinship tree :)
>
> best,
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:27 AM Raffaele Simone <rsimone at os.uniroma3.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> words like *widower *and *orphan *imply a complex web of relationships.
>> An orphan is someone whose father or mother has died; a widower is someone
>> whose wife or husband has died.
>>
>> Do you know any language in which there are words that mean "someone to
>> whom a child has died", "someone to whom a brother or sister has died" etc.?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> R Simone
>>
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