John Dingley: more bats etymology

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:41:07 -0400
From: "John Dingley" <jdingley at YorkU.CA>
To: CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG


Hi,

Here is a follow-up to my first posting about the Gaelic/Irish words
for bat.

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. I see no reason why iatlu would not also fit this pattern.
Somebody must have written about this!!!

Best,
John Dingley

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