[Xmca-l] Re: kinship

[Rod Parker-Rees]

David, are the Chinese and Korean terms for 'familiar' related to the terms for family?

All the best

Rod


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Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: kinship

In Chinese and in Korean, the word "family" is related to housing rather
than to kinship. In European languages it is the other way around. This
does suggest something semantic, no?

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On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 6:22 AM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Martin,
> Well that is a difficult question to answer without knowing what you mean
> by "family"?
> What in the world do you mean by "family"?
> -greg
>
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:
>
> > I am struggling with the way ‘family’ and ‘kinship’ have been defined, or
> > not defined, in psychology and anthropology. One question that has
> occurred
> > to me is whether a word equivalent to ‘family’ exists in every language.
> > When I Google this, Google responds ‘Ask Siri’…  :(
> >
> > Anyone have an idea?
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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