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Re: qama'

From: Matt Johnson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: qama'
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 15:10:04 +0000
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References: <[email protected]>

In article <[email protected]>, Lieven L. Litaer
<[email protected]> writes
>quljIb wrote:
>> tlhuH  - breath, breathe
>> tlhutlh- drink
>They're puns.
>These two are sound-describing words (there's aspecial term for it, but
>I don't remember it.) tlhutlh is the sound being made whil drinking
>(germans say "Gluck-Gluck" for the sound of it), and tlhuH is the sound
>made when breathing.

In English: onomatopoeia.

In German: who knows. :-)

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Matt Johnson <mailto:[email protected]>

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