Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds

En réponse à daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>:

>
> Speaking of this, does anyone know the origins of Spanish
> _graznar_, Italian _starnazzare_ and French _caqueter_?
> These are supposedly used as verbs for the sound of the duck.
>
As for French caqueter (/kak'te/ or /kak@'te/), I would suspect an onomatopoeic
origin (it sounds quite like the sound of a duck in other languages, even if in
French the sound is "coin coin" /kwE~kwE~/), maybe indirectly since there exists
also a noun "caquet" /ka'ke/ used mainly in the expression "rabattre son caquet
à quelqu'un" (to make so shut up), which seems to refer to the special beak of
the duck (but is used nowadays only for the expression I told you).

Christophe.

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