béhlakwahl

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Wiyot[edit]

Béhlakwahl.

Etymology[edit]

From béhlakw (elk) with the regular subordinative suffix. Literally: "Elk of another", referencing the cow's arrival from Europe.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /βéʔlakʷaʔl/
  • Hyphenation: béh‧la‧kwahl

Noun[edit]

béhlakwahl

  1. cow

References[edit]

  • Karl V. Teeter (1964) The Wiyot Language, University of California press, page 80
  • George Gibbs (1863) A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: Or, the Trade Language of Oregon
  • Anthony Grant (1996) “Chinook Jargon and its distribution”, in Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, →ISBN (which cites Teeter–Nichols 1993)