béhlakwahl

Wiyot

Béhlakwahl.

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

Noun

béhlakwahl

1. cow

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)