Claudia Mona Striewe: more bats etymology

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

From: "claudia mona striewe" <polarstar at web.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:41:22 +0200
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>  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.
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>
Just as an addition, in German it is "Fledermaus" and I am not quite sure
about the "Fleder" part of the word, it could be related to fluttering
around or also about the leathery appearance of the wings.

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