Abstract
We wish to credit Brent Berlin with getting us interested in problems of nomenclature which until now we have largely ignored in favor of lexical/semantic fields. The two interests, we find, composed of single morphemes. Extension of anatomical terms appears to procede always from the body to other cultural domains. It is not our intention to investigate in any detail the anatomical domain of English. However, similarly casual investigation of the Navajo anatomical terminology indicates a different situation. Therefore, (1) looking at the domain of the origin and the extensions of Navajo anatomical terms restricted in this paper to the 47 Navajo customary terms of the foot,2 is our first goal. This task is preparatory to the second, main goal, (2) to refine the universal propositions of principles of nomenclature by
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