[Lexicog] bat

[Kenneth C. Hill]

'Bat' in various Northern Uto-Aztecan languages:

Hopi: sawya (plural saa-sawya-m). Sawya also means 'spy', probably a
secondary meaning.

Serrano: walu:lu-C (C = apico-alveolar affricate), plural walu:lu-m. Here
the /l/ is unusual. /l/ in Serrano is rare except in loanwords, but I know
of no loan source for walu:luC.

Cahuilla: páli-l (plural páli-l-em), páli-ku-we-t (an augmentative form),
páli-sis-ma-l (a diminutive form).

Cupeño: máchi$hat (ch = alveopalatal affricate, $h = apicoalveolar
fricative).

Luiseño: taválalak-ma-l. -ma-l is a diminutive suffix complex, but I don't
have a source for the rest of the word.

Tümpisa Shoshone: (large) honnopi(ttsi), (small) paattsana(ttsi).

It seems striking that the words for 'bat' are not cognate between any of
these languages.

--Ken

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