Re: OT: Animal-sound ideophones (was Re: OT: Junk)

Isadora Zamora wrote:
> It has occurred to me to wonder how many of you have invented any
> animal-sound ideophones for your conlangs?  If you have, how did you come
> up with them?
With little difficulty :-))))

Kash: ñar [JAr ~JA:r:] to roar, applies to Kash as well as to animals.
Sound change *N > ñ somewhat obscures the obvious onomatopoeia.

rondoñ ['rondoN] ~rondondroñ [ron'dondroN] ~rondroñ ['rondroN] (violates
/r..r../ rule!) low-pitched purring sound; the sound of some motors.

muru-muru the purring sound made by Cousin spp. (the Kash can't do it)--
more of a rumble actually, like what you hear from contented tigers and
lions.

(IIRC, the mechanism of cats' purring is still a mystery.)

OT: have others seen the TV show (on Animal Planet in the US) about the
Tiger Island Park in (I gather) Australia? The tigers are hand-raised from
birth and quite tame, roam around with their keepers and mingle (carefully)
with the visitors etc.  Abolutely charming.  Overgrown kittycats.