Onomatopoeia

What’s your favorite word?

A word that actually sounds like something in life sounds…

A sizzling, fizzing, firework

Birds tweet

Dogs woof or howl

Owls hoot!

Sheep baaaa baaaa

Cows moo at you

Oompah bands play

Trombones trumpet!

Water splashing and plishing

Swishing and gurgling

Tocking ticking clocks

Wham! Bam! Crashing

A purr from a kitten or cat

A dropped boot in mud. splat!

Slurp my cocoa

Go to sleep for a few zzzeds!

Onomatopoeia ?

Glung! The springs in my bed make that noise. Shhhhh the wind in the trees.

It’s the word that is written that sounds like the sound that is being made. Cats Miaow (or miroaw), sheep go Bahh. So lambs are called Baa Lambs. There is a Baa lamb hill near here.

Just thinking, maybe that’s how language started? Imitating sounds, and then other describing words. How can we know.

Translation of language was helped by the Rosetta stone which had three languages carved into it. Because each was a translation of the previous one it took linguists back in time to understand ancient voices.