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