to yelp
From: alex_lycos
Message: 18427
Date: 2003-02-04
yelp - O.E. gelpan (Anglian), gielpan (W.Saxon) "to boast," from P.Gmc.
*gelpanan. Meaning "quick, sharp bark or cry" (n.) is c.1500.
German : klaffen, kläffen MHD="klaffen", AHD="klafo:n"
Albanian : leh (lost of k)
Romanian : clefãi
Rom. Word is given as onomatopoeic formation and all the derivatives as
coming from this onomatopoeia Semantically is no difference. In all
languages means " to bark"
Question: can we find there slavic cognates too ?
Alex