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Re: Animal noises

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, October 18, 2007, 14:33
Quoting Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...>:

> Den 17. okt. 2007 kl. 17.35 skreiv Andreas Johansson: > > > Is there a list of such IE onomatopoeia available online? It could be > > interesting to run them thru the Wa GMP and see what somes out ... > > I suppose Wa GMP isn't the Colt Delta Elite silver color model, as > one Google hit seems to indicate. Could you explain?
"Wa" is the (provisional) name of my IE conlang, and "GMP" = "Grand Master Plan", ie. list of sound-changes producing it from PIE.
> I used the following forms: *gha- for ducks, *ker-, *kor-, *kerg-, > *krek-, *(s)k(o)reuk-, *(s)k(o)rauk- for crow-like birds, *ge:u- for > gulls, *ga:u- for frogs, *ghrem- for fierce small animals, *ghro-, > *ghra- for fierce big animals, and *kwel- for squeaking animals. Many > of these I think are found in several IE languages as names for the > various animals too.
Thanks. :) Andreas