Re: Primary Interjections - Universals?

--- In conlang@y..., Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@F...> wrote:

> And French too. For this one i think I would tend to agree with you. What about
> the sound used by people to try and impose silence on others? French
> has "chut !" /Syt/, English IIRC has "shhh..." /S:/. What do other languages do?
German: /ps:t/,  Swiss German /pS:t/,  Obrenje /hMs:/  (it's also the
imperative form of the verb |cusme| "to be silent").

Other interjections of Obrenje that I've defined so far:

/aw/   adoration, awe, melancholy, longing, mourning
/hu:/  admiration, awe, pleasure
/aj/   pain, shock
/ax/   pain, annoyance
/o:/   hope, desire
/a:/   pleasure, realisation, pain, pretty much everything.  =P


-- Christian Thalmann

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