Jean le Du: more bats etymology

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

From: "Jean le Du" <jeanledu at free.fr>
To: "The Celtic Linguistics List" <CELTLING at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Subject: Re:      John Dingley: more bats etymology
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:20:48 +0200

Talking of sciathán-leathair = leather wing, one Breton word for bat is
askell grohen 'skin wing'.


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From: <mailto:ejp10 at psu.edu>Elizabeth J. Pyatt
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Subject: John Dingley: more bats etymology

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:41:07 -0400
From: "John Dingley" <<mailto:jdingley at YorkU.CA>jdingley at YorkU.CA>
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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 sciathán-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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