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The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
As well as being worth millions of dollars to the Texan agriculture industry, these mammals are worth millions of dollars to the state’s tourism industry. Texas is home to the world’s largest known bat colony (in Comal County), and the world’s largest urban bat colony (in Austin). Bat watching is a common activity, with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department offering more bat-viewing sites than anywhere else in the US.
^ Beekes, R. S. P. (1997). Sound Law and Analogy: Papers in Honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Netherlands: Rodopi, p. 312
^ Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 242
^ A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect. W.D. Parrish
^ A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms. W. D. Parish and W.F. Shaw
The retailer who sells a little girl a pretty pair of shoes today instead of a pair of bats, is bound to sell that girl, when she grows up, a pair of stylish $3 or $4 shoes instead of her buying a pair of $1.98 bargain bats elsewhere.
From a reduced form of Proto-Basque*bade(“one, some”), present also in bederatzi(“nine”) and bedera(“same; everyone”). Compared by Eduardo Orduña and Joan Ferrer to Iberianban(“one”).
The declension table shown in this section only applies when bat is used as a noun (usually when referring to the number itself). For other uses see the other declension tables.
Declension
Declension of bat (inanimate, ending in consonant)
^ “bat” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
^ Mitxelena, Koldo L. (1961) Fonética histórica vasca [Basque Historical Phonetics] (Obras completas de Luis Michelena; 1) (in Spanish), Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa, published 1990, →ISBN, page 134
^ “bat” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
^ Orduña A., Eduardo (2011) “Los numerales ibéricos y el protovasco [Iberian numerals and Proto-Basque]”, in Veleia (in Spanish), volume 28, pages 125–139
^ Joan Ferrer i Jané, El sistema de numerales ibérico: avances en su conocimiento
Further reading
“bat zenbatzailea” in Euskara Batuaren Eskuliburua , euskaltzaindia.eus
Black witch moths are still flying around like hawks.
2003, Amber Wilson, Jamaica: The Land (in English), page 30:
“Hundreds of species of butterflies and moths live in Jamaica. Jamaicans call large moths "bats." The black witch moth is known as "the duppy bat." A duppy is a spirit in Jamaican culture that sometimes causes mischief. Duppy bats have brown [...]”
Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128
1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 106:
Mot earch oan to aar die. Ich mosth kotch a bat.
But every one to his day. I must catch the bat.
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106