Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds
| From: | Irina Rempt <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 16, 2001, 9:43 |
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On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Muke Tever wrote:
> OED says it's "originally an echoic word", and related to the bird's name
> "crow", Dutch "kraaijen" and German "krähen", among others.
"Kraaien", please, the spelling with "ij" was already obsolete in the
nineteenth century :-)
"Kraaien" is the sound a rooster makes; like in English, a crow
doesn't crow.
Irina
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