béhlakwahl
Wiyot
Etymology
From béhlakw (“elk”) with the regular subordinative suffix. Literally: "Elk of another", referencing the cow's arrival from Europe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /βéʔlakʷaʔl/
- Hyphenation: béh‧la‧kwahl
References
- 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)
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