Re: Austin, Utopia, Uglossia, and Bats.

Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:

> Do any of you have bats in your conworlds?  If so, what's the word?
> I have _apo~_ /'apu/ in my old dictionary, plural _mimmapo_ /mI'mapu/
I have bats, but no word yet for them. But if a Drasel=E9q speaker
saw a bat for the first time, s/he would probably name it
_fiffom_, pl. _f=EDffombeth_, which can be translated as=20
'whistlerat' (_fif_ is the root for 'whistle' or 'sharp
sound').


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/