Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@A...> wrote:

> Speaking of JRRT, "Silmarillion" is a very nice word.
Yeah, that's a nice one.

The most beautiful word in English, considering both sound
and typographic appearance, would have to be "caesura".

As for other languages...  I once made up a mantra in my
currently pitifully neglected first conlang Obrenje:
/'o:Za'milla'jEndra'Ze:ni/, for which I later found the
grammatically sensible form |o ze amille a jende razeni|
meaning "That the tranquility may comfort and cleanse me."

As you can see, I just totally love /Z/.  That must be
the most erotic sound ever.  Except maybe a purred /m/...
but how would you write that?  /m_k/ maybe?  But good
luck building that into a language...


-- Christian Thalmann