Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Saturday, April 14, 2001, 0:38 |
|---|
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>> Tokana used to have an onomatopoetic word for cat, namely "miua"
>> [miwa], but then I banished cats, and so the word no longer exists.
>> [When I decided that the Tokana lived in North America in an
>> alternate universe where there had been no colonization from the Old
>> World, I restricted their inventory of domestic animals to those
>> which an advanced society in the Americas with little or no contact
>> with Eurasia might be expected to have, namely dogs (brought over on
>> the Bering land bridge or domesticated from native wolves), llamas
>> (imported from South America), turkeyfowl, and ducks/geese. No
>> cats, chickens, cows, horses, pigs, sheep, or goats.]
>>
>
>Wouldn't horses have come over the landbridge too?
I believe it's horses and camelids that went _west_ over
the bridge into Asia. Could be wrong here, but I recall
reading this somewhere.
Padraic.