[Lingtyp] Someone whose father ...

[Jess Tauber]

Perhaps the loss of a child is far more common in everyday experience (from
failed pregnancy to accidents to disease than loss of an adult caregiver.
Is there some sort of avoidance issue here leading to the relative rarity
of such terminology? A child is the responsibility of an adult, so losing
one is a potentially a stain on their reputation, whereas loss of an adult
is generally not usually the fault of the child.

Jess Tauber

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 4:47 PM Pier Marco Bertinetto <
piermarco.bertinetto at sns.it> wrote:

> Dear Raffaele,
> looking at the issue from the other side (i.e., a child who lost her/his
> parents), you might consider this rather odd, idiosyncratic lexicalization
> of Wayana [way, Cariban]:
> *pikuku-tpë* (lit. child-RETROSPECTIVE) = ‘orphan’ (Camargo 2008, ex. 26).
>
> Camargo, Eliane. 2008. Operadores aspectuais de estado marcando o nome en
> wayana
> (caribe). LIAMES 8. 85–104. [Aspectual operators of state marking the noun
> in Wayana].
>
> Ciao
> Pier Marco
>
>
> Il giorno mer 16 feb 2022 alle ore 11:28 Raffaele Simone <
> rsimone at os.uniroma3.it> ha scritto:
>
>> 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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