[Lexicog] bat

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

In most dialects of Carrier "bat" is -t'az (variously with or
without the prefix 'u), but in the Lheidli dialect, spoken
around Prince George, this has been replaced by the
innovation liyab dut'ai "devil bird", where dut'ai is
"bird" (etymologically, "winged one") and liyab is
from French "le diable".

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Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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