Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 13, 2001, 21:22 |
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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. Watkins,
> however, in the AHD IE roots book, derives it from PIE *gerH2- "to cry
> hoarsely; also the name of the crane"
*gerH2- sounds to me like it could've been onomatopoeic.
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