[Lingtyp] Someone whose father ...

[Adam James Ross Tallman]

Ah, I see, my apologies, I guess it's an English dialect thing - for me
this is "Someone who had a child die", I think.

I don't know, but I'll check. :)

Adam

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:47 AM David Nash <david.nash at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Warlpiri, for instance, has a kinship suffix /-puka/ so that K-puka means
> 'person bereaved someone to whom they are K'
> Look in the English finder of
> http://ausil.org/Dictionary/Warlpiri/index-english/index.htm undered
> 'bereaved' for several instances.
> David
>
>
> On 16/2/2022 21:18, Raffaele Simone 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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