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Orðabók

leðurblaka

leðurleather
blakato flap
leather flapper

which everyone uses to mean bat

Batman is Leðurblökumaðurinn in Icelandic — the leather-flap man. Iceland translates the name rather than borrowing it, which is why the caped crusader sounds like a laundry accident.

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Literal glosses are a translator’s liberty, not a rule. This compound may have frozen centuries ago, with its pieces drifting since. If it is wrong, a correction from an Icelandic speaker is the whole point.

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