animacy hierarchy
Grammar
noun
A ranking of words based on their degree of animacy, with those denoting human beings usually ranked highest, and those denoting inanimate objects lowest.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Slavic and East European Journal.
- fish bone
- fishbowl
- fishcake
- fish eagle
- fisher
- fisherfolk
- fisherman
- fisherman bat
- fisherman knit
- fisherman's bend
- fisherman's knot
- fisherman's rib
- Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer
- Fisher, St John
- fisherwoman
- fishery
- fisheye
- fisheye lens
- fish farm
- fish farmer
- fish farming
- fish finger
- fish food
- Fish, Hamilton
- fish hawk