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Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds

From:Irina Rempt <ira@...>
Date:Monday, April 16, 2001, 9:43
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 -- Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay. irina@valdyas.org (myself) http://www.valdyas.org/irina/valdyas