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