köken: From Middle High German vledermūs, from Old High German fledarmūs, from *fledara (“wing”) + mūs (“mouse”). Displaced older mūstro (“bat”), found also in the combination form fledaremūstro/fledarmūstro.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *yar (“bat”) + *kānat (“wing”). Alternatively explained as Proto-Turkic *yarï-kānat (“membrane-wing”), equivalent to Bashkir яры (yarı, “membrane”) + ҡанат (qanat, “wing”). However, this version is dismissed by some researchers as folk etymology. Cognate with Kazakh жарғанат (jarğanat), Tatar ярканат (yarqanat), Kyrgyz жарганат (jarganat), Southern Altai јарганат (ǰarganat),…
köken: From Old Japanese. First attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE. Derived from 宣(の)る (noru, “to say; to declare”), possibly combined with auxilliary verb ふ (-fu) expressing repetition or ongoing state.
köken: First attested as Middle Korean ᄇᆞᆰ〯쥐〮 (pǒlkcwúy) in the Gugeup ganibang eonhae (救急簡易方諺解 / 구급간이방언해), 6:68a, 1489, seemingly a compound of some *ᄇᆞᆰ〯 (*pǒlk) + 쥐〮 (cwúy, “rat”). Folk etymology commonly attributes the first component to ᄇᆞᆰ다〮 (pòlktá, “to be bright”), supposedly reflecting a popular belief that bats have bright eyes that allow them to see at night. However, ᄇᆞᆰ다〮 has an initial low…
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-Iranian *kráwćati Sanskrit क्रोशति (krośati) Hindi कोसना Inherited from Prakrit *𑀓𑁄𑀲𑀇 (*kosaï), from Sanskrit क्रोशति (króśati). Cognate with Romani koshel, Garhwali कोसणु (kosṇu).