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From: Troy Sagrillo <t.sagrillo@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Dog sounds
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Dara Connolly wrote:
> 
> In article <5485fj$2c9@nimble.mta.ca>,
>    cprchrd@mailserv.mta.ca (Christian P Richard) wrote:
> >> I made a list a few years ago with words from a lot of languages around
> >> the world [for dog sounds]...
> 
> >French =  oua(h)!
> >English=  woof!
> >German =  wau! or wuff!
> >
> >And sometimes I see "ouaf" in French-Canadian, probably because of English
> >influence.
> 
> In Japanese, dogs say 'wan wan'.  Incidentally, in English it can also be
> 'Bow-wow'.  Both of these examples are also childish words for 'dog'.

I haven't been following this thread from the beginning, so sorry if
this is a repeat, but some words for animals in ancient Egyptian were
onomonopaic:

/miw/ = cat
/iwh/ = dog
/`3/ (`e'a) = donkey

Troy sagrillo
