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From: Troy Sagrillo <t.sagrillo@utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: Dog sounds
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Troy Sagrillo wrote:
> 
> 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

Sorry, this should have read: /iw/ = dog

> /`3/ (`e'a) = donkey
> 
> Troy sagrillo
