From: tgpedersen
Message: 51567
Date: 2008-01-20
>So lobsters go 'kr-kr', wheels go 'kWl-kWl' and balls go 'bl-bl', or
> The geography is a bit odd here but in English we have
> the expression "pussy fart" --a sound created during
> intercourse when the female organ is full of liquid
> But IE languages seem to have quite a number of p-
> words that deal with sex, sex organs, anus and anal
> fuctions. And due to taboo an incredible number of
> forms.
> Didn't Greenberg and Ruhlen posit a *pVt- "world word"
> for "anus, vulva"? If so, I imagine it's another
> onomatopoeic word like English 'poot", IE pezd-, etc.
> Someone needs to record all the onomatopoeic classes
> to keep the mass com folks from embarrassing
> themselves
> And if World Lang is valid --separating the wheat from
> the chaff will be an immense favor.
> So far:
> KR --"hard words"
> KR -- "frog words" because of the call
> PZ, PT, PS "anus, vulva, penis" words
> BR, FR "boil" words
> KwL "wheel, circle" words
> BL, PL "ball" words
> and, of course, mama and papa