Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds

Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Hey guys.
>
>Finally, the paper on onomatopoetic animal sounds is done.
>On request I've translated the material into English and
>uploaded it to my site. The address is:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/conlangus/onomato.html
>
>A big thank you to all you who helped me out by
>volunteering as consultants.
>
>So what do you think?
Nice!

A thing on Nordic "gala" tho: in Old Norse it seems to've meant "sing" . You
could "gala" a magic song on somebody to place a curse on him or her. Modern
Swedish _galen_ "crazy" originally meant "sung" or something like that. "En
galen man"="A sung man"="A man who've been cursed by a song"="A crazy man".

                                                         Andreas
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