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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•5 days agoIsn’t bat in German something the Flidermaus which is “flying mouse”?
minus-squareSkull giverlinkfedilink3•5 days agoEnglish used to have a word like that borrowed from Middle Dutch. Lots of Germanic languages have a word for bats that means something like “flying/floating mouse”.
Isn’t bat in German something the Flidermaus which is “flying mouse”?
It’s ‘bald mouse’ in French, that much I know.
Leather mouse in Hungarian
It’s “fluttering mouse” in Norwegian.
English used to have a word like that borrowed from Middle Dutch. Lots of Germanic languages have a word for bats that means something like “flying/floating mouse”.