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czHANg wrote:
>    Any conlang onomatopoeia in respect to mosquitoes and other
sound-making
>insects?
>    Other than insect noise onomatopoeia, what other forms of
sound-symbolism
>do your conlangs have (i.e. how do cats, dogs, birds, rodents, etc.
"sound")?
>Any "buzz" (influence) from machinery, electronic devices, mass media, etc
on
>your conlangs - how much of an impact does technology have on your
conlangs'
>sound-symbolism?

At last a Conlang topic.
Insect life amongst the Kash has not been developed yet...Nor most fauna.

Otherwise, I find quite a few onomat. and imititative items, some not very
original like  trip 'drip';  pum 'hard blow, sudden shot, pow!';  fup
'fart'; tup 'bounce', slang tupatúp 'intercourse, bouncy-bouncy'; lum
'licking, slurp'; yup~yuyúp 'hurry up!";
cun 'sound of grinding'; tiñ, tañ 'sound of bells, small/large
respectively', triñ, trañ 'sound of hammering, light/heavy resp.'  (Bear in
mind, "-ñ" is [N], but [ñ] elsewhere.)

Full fledged lexical items include: yayañ 'chat', yañañ 'gossip'; yayap
'scream'; ñiñiñ 'whine, wheedle', ñuñuñ 'grumble, mutter', ñañañ 'chatter,
run off at the mouth'; ñumuñ 'hum, drone (of insects or machinery)',
compounded with rinju 'sing' > rinjumuñ 'to chant (which is mostly on a
monotone)'.  Then there's ñar 'to roar' (at times of great emotion, good or
bad-- the only evidence in modern life of their leonoid/pantheroid
ancestry).

Some others are merely suggestive:  yuyañ 'swing, sway';  sucup 'mud'
(related to sunju 'earth, soil'); ulap 'stagger (implied: drunk)'; and lali
'sing (high-pitched, of children or "birds"' as opposed to rinju 'sing, of
adults'.)