Re: onomatopoetic animal sounds
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 13, 2001, 22:15 |
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J Matthew Pearson scripsit:
> Tokana used to have an onomatopoetic word for cat, namely "miua"
> [miwa], but then I banished cats, and so the word no longer exists.
Banished cats? What of the bobcat, the lynx, and the cougar? Surely
the first of these at least could have an onomatopoetic word?
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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