summary borrowing body part terms many moons ago posted query regarding borrowing certain body part terms notably heart eye ear tongue never posted summary tsk tsk first able find either linguist sources clear examples almost basic body part terms including hand many iranian languages persian ossetic chechen ingush heart polish czech many indo aryan iranian languages persian turkish arabic tongue whole bunch ethiopian languages one completely clearly documented example ear although cases ear replaced neologism within language thus still looking example borrowing involving word ear discussion whole question borrowability body part terms relation language classification esp reference altaic question appear paper alexander vovin appear next year zeitschrift der deutschen morgelandischen gesellschaft finally would like summarize information provided responded original query linguist deepest thanks shirley silver silver sonoma edu reported mary haas reconstructed proto hokan ear navel noted one could find reconstruct similar forms language families penutian yuki algic languages wiyot yurok would seem suggest borrowing closest come far borrowed ear benjamin moore ben edr5r edr co jp reports modern japanese term animal tongue used food tan borrowing english tongue david costa dcosta garnet berkeley edu george aaron broadwell g broadwell albany edu note choctaw _ nishkin _ eye according costa forms western muskogean chickasaw choctaw mobilian jargon algonquian source note proto algonquian _ ne ki n ekwi _ suggestion found goes back least mary haas however add ives goddard asked expressed strong doubt connection bruce connell connellb vax ox ac uk reported heart usaghade lower cross benue congo apparently borrowed neighbouring bantu language semantic shift tone marking omitted usaghade ebuma heart proto bantu bumo tomach jakob dempsey jakob u washington edu reported common word tongue standard chinese hmong mien languages generally speaking hm miao yao likely related suggesting borrowing since languages considered genetically linked norbert strade lingnost hum aau dk reported finnish word neck kaula borrowed baltic cynthia vakareliyska vakarel oregon uoregon edu pointed slavists believe russian word eye _ glaz _ borrowed germany slowly tracing origin opinion appears error yet gotten way bottom view correct etymology given several authorities shift meaning native word tone boulder like references connell b press role language contact development usaghade appear sugia sprache und geschichte afrika 16 17 special issue language contact historical change haas mary r 1964 california hokan studies californian linguistics william bright ed university california publications linguistics 34 7387 jacob betty dale nicklas betty lou spencer 1977 introduction choctaw durant ok choctaw bilingual education program southeastern oklahoma state university