[Lexicog] What is a bat?

[Peter Kirk]

On 12/08/2004 22:50, Fritz Goerling wrote:

>...
>How do you name the bat in your language? And where would you put it
>in a domain dictionary?
>
>
>
In Azerbaijani (Turkic), a bat is "yarasa" (also Turkish), or "gecəquşu"
(gejagushu) = night-bird. The etymology of "yarasa" is not immediately
clear, but I see that several other Turkic languages have forms like
"yarghanat" which link to Azerbaijani "yarğan" = ravine. So the meaning
may well be something like ravine-dweller. Well, there's another
characteristic which may well have been noted in Eden, which has been
located by David Rohl in southern (Iranian) Azerbaijan.

--
Peter Kirk
peter at qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/




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