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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "beh_nar" <beh_nar@...> wrote:
> I am looking for PIE related onomatopoeic words list.
> Also wav/mp3 files with natural related sounds.
> Do you know where I can find it?
>
> Or can we make a list?
>
> Sometimes is quite challenging to find out the potentially related
> sounds.
> I think it is rather speculative mater. Or maybe notÂ…
>
>
> If you can add use:
> Word, lang., description, init.
If you're prepared to do your own searching, you could look in the
list of Pokorny roots at
http://flaez.ch/cgi-bin/pok.pl for German
glosses containing 'Schall'. If on-line Pokorny is down (it often
is), and your German isn't good enough (mine isn't), there's a set of
English glosses for the roots at
<
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/PIE roots> , but note
the special scheme used there for writing PIE roots. I don't know
what to make of these glosses; some of them are very different from
the English glosses in on-line Pokorny. There are some howlers
there, but translating German to English is not the easiest of tasks
for a Russian, especially if he has his own views on what the Russian
glosses should be.
Be warned that an onomatopoeic root is intrinsically unreliable; it
could very well have undergone parallel, independent reshaping (or
replacement) in the daughter languages.
Richard.