Steve Porse: more bats etymology

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:00:39 +0200
From: Sten Porse <porse at post3.tele.dk>

May I tell you that the danish word for bat is "flagermus", which
means "fluttering mouse". So you may well be right in your
interpretation of the german word.
Sten Porse

>
>>  From: "claudia mona striewe" <polarstar at web.de>
>>  Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:41:22 +0200
>>  ----
>>
>>>   Strange that nobody suggests what iatlu, dialtag etc. actually meant
>>>  originally. Gaelic ialtag-leathair also exists, which makes one wonder a
>>>  leather what? Cf. Irish sciath·n-leathair = leather wing. Just about all
>>>  designations for the bat in European languages fit this
>>>  Irish model, e.g. Russian flying mouse, Serbian blind mouse, Breton blind
>>>  mouse.
>>>
>>>
>>  Just as an addition, in German it is "Fledermaus" and I am not quite sure
>>  about the "Fleder" part of the word, it could be related to fluttering
>>  around or also about the leathery appearance of the wings.
>>
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