[tied] Re: Crows and Garlands

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 19-08-03 20:14, alex wrote:
>
>
> > and which is the verb for the onomatopeea the raven makes? Every
> > language must ( I guess ) have a verb for this special sound make

by

> > crows and raves.
> > In rom this is "a croncãni".
>
> E.g. Polish <kruk> 'raven', <krakac'> 'croak (like a raven)'.

English

> <croak> is of course onomatopoeic itself.
>
> Piotr

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I will add here Alb. <krrok> 'to caw, to crow', suffixed form
<krrokat> 'id.', n. krrokamë 'caw', all of onomatopoeic origin.

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