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<div>Russian equivaents of words for laughter</div> <div> </div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <div>Neutral verb: smeiat'sia (to laugh)</div> <div>Substantive (noun) smekh (laughter)</div></SPAN></FONT> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial">English Russian</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to burst out laughing razrazit'sia smekhom</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to laugh hearily </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial"> umirat' ot smecha (or so smechu)</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> (lit. to die from laughter)</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">no English equivalent zalivat'sya (or razlivat'sia)
smechom</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(the same as razrazit'sia smekhom but with a hidden comparison to flood)</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to chuckle davit'sia ot smekha</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to
cackle <FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">khikhikat' )</SPAN></FONT></div> <div> NB. in Russian it is the same</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial">to snicker/snigger <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">khikhikat' )</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to titter pokhokhatyvat' (for short time or with <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY:
Arial"> intervals), also khikhikat' (without relation to time)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">to guffaw rassmeiat'sya or smeiat'sia gromko,</SPAN></FONT></div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> khokhotat'</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">the noun for chuckle/gigle is smeshok (diminutive noun from smekh 'laughter')</SPAN></FONT></div></SPAN></FONT> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </div> <div><FONT face=Arial color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I think in Russian the only important elements are the agent and the degree of laughter, as well as duration or intermittency. Only one from the verbs (chochotat') used mostly to describe the laughter of young women, teenagers and children, but not excluded from other agents.</SPAN></FONT></div> <div><BR><BR>Hayim Y. Sheynin</div><p>
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