It is a consolidated metathesis in the time of bat, term from the Latin mur caecus, which in ancient Castilian gave bat (blind mouse) that still exists, the same as the diminutive murceguillo. What I would not know how to say what is easier to pronounce : whether bat or bat . But in this as in many other things people (the use) decide .
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