What is "body-part"

Usage examples of "body-part".

Hot warm air struck her like a pillow, and a pattering rain of cermet armor and body-parts began to fell around the soldiers of the Domination.

The latter example may suggest that all body-parts occurring in pairs are denoted by dual forms in -u rather than -t, regardless of the shape of the word (though the ending -t is evidently preferred if other endings intrude before the dual ending itself.

But in Lesson Three we also argued from the example peu "(pair of) lips" that body-parts occurring in pairs occur in "fossilized" dual forms, always taking the ending -u "reflecting the older system in which only -u denoted a natural or logical pair".

As we have argued from the attested example peu "pair of lips", nouns denoting body-parts occurring in pairs may consistently have "fossilized" dual forms in -u, since it was this ending that originally denoted a natural or logical pair.

Despite enormous resis­tance from his superiors, Bertillon had begun to record the body-part sizes of known criminals and then to categorize his results, training a staff of assistant measurers and photogra­phers in the process.