bat

[Wayles Browne]

We can add some statistics from the Bosnian corpus, 1+ million words,
at http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/Bosnian/Corpus.html
and the Croatian corpus, 8+ million words, at http://www.hnk.ffzg.hr/30m.htm

ljiljak (and inflected forms): Bos. 0, Cro. 0
netopir (and inflected forms): Bos. 0, Cro. 0
s^is^mis^  (and inflected forms): Bos. 1, Cro. 7 (it seems to be the
standard translation for
Strauss's "Die Fledermaus")
slijepi mis^: Bos. 4, Cro. 1

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu



Ralph Bogert's original answer:
>  >  There are four terms used for "bat" in the New Stokavian
>(post-17th century
>system of iotization, desinence, and accentuation that became the basis for
>standardized modern Croatian and standardized modern Serbian) area.
>      1.  ljiljak = regional, used in southern Serbia.
>      2.  netopir = regional, used in standard literary Croatian:
>                   Antun Gustav Matos: "Notturno"
>                   Miroslav Krleza: "U toj tmini netopiri zive."
>      3.  sl(ij)epi mis = standard in both Croatian and Serbian.
>      4.  sismis = used in Croatian Moslavina region (Bikovske Gorice) east
>                   of Zagreb:
>                   Slavko Kolar: "Sismis prosusti i iscezne."
>                   Ante Kovacic: "Jos cete vi...za te mracne i sismiske poslove
>                                 odgovarati."
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi,
>>
>>  Could someone enlighten me as to the geographical distribution of
>>  of Serbocroatian "shishmish" and "slepi mish" = "bat"?
>>
>>  Also, as far as I know, the West Slavic "netopir" is not used
>>  in Serbocroatian, although it is the normal word for "bat" in
>>  Slovene. Would that be correct?
>>
>>  John Dingley
>>
>>  -------------
>>  http://whitnash.arts.yorku.ca/jding.html
>>
>  > ---------------------

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