béhlakwahl
Wiyot
editEtymology
editFrom béhlakw (“elk”) with the regular subordinative suffix. Literally: "Elk of another", referencing the cow's arrival from Europe.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbéhlakwahl
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)