<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I disagree with the transcription in Wiktionary; I usually hear [ʔɜ͡ʢ(ʔ)ʔɜ͡ʢm] (where [ʢ] represents a voiced epiglottal trill). Indeed, I would never write [mˈm̥m] as <i class="">ahem</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">, but rather as </span><i class="">mm-hmm</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">.</span><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, Japanese has <i class="">goho-goho</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> and </span><i class="">koho-koho</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> for “real” coughing, and </span><i class="">gohon</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> or </span><i class="">kohon</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> for a fake cough intended to get someone’s attention.</span> In both cases, the voicing is determined by how heavy the coughing is.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tamil has <i class="">lokku-lokku</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> for a phlegmy cough; I’ve also heard </span><i class="">garr burr</i><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""> for throat-clearing. I’m not sure if there is an ideophone for a dry cough.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Siva<br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Mar 2022, at 11:06 pm, Jussi Ylikoski <<a href="mailto:jussi.ylikoski@oulu.fi" class="">jussi.ylikoski@oulu.fi</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Dear all,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">[mˈm̥m], this discussion sounds interesting! For pronunciation and translations for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">ahem</i>, see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" class="">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with the interlanguage links. I just added<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kr%C3%B6h%C3%B6m" title="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kr%C3%B6h%C3%B6m" class=""><i class="">kröhöm</i></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>into the Finnish entry at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview_1" class="">https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem</a>.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Best,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Jussi<br class=""></div><div class="_EReadonly_1 _EType_OWALinkPreview _Entity _EId_OWALinkPreview_1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; 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font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">Frá:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lingtyp <<a href="mailto:lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>> fyrir hönd David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de" class="">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>föstudagur, 11. mars 2022 14:47<br class=""><b class="">Til:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" class="">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Efni:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?</font><div class=""> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Dear all,<br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Not exactly ideophones or coughing, but English has "harrumph" and "ahem" to denote a sort of fake cough intentionally produced to express disapproval and/or draw attention. (The two actually seem to differ in their status: whereas the former is kind of a regular verb, I don't think I've ever heard "ahem" pronounced — it seems to exist only in written form.)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Do other languages have similar forms? </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">David</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 11/03/2022 11:58, Raffaele Simone wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Dear all,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">working on a paper on ideophones and their place in grammar and lexicon I happened to wonder how things are concerning cough.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Romance languages and other which I am familiar with do not seem to have a standard ideophone for it and even less a stable an accepted written version of it.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Do you know languages that have an ideophone for cough and even more a way of indicating it in writing?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Raffaele<br class=""><span lang="EN" class=""></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><pre class="x_moz-signature" cols="72">--
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(The two actually seem to differ in their status: whereas the former is kind of a regular verb, I don't think I've ever heard "ahem" pronounced — it seems to exist only in written form.)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Do other languages have similar forms? </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">David</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 11/03/2022 11:58, Raffaele Simone wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Dear all,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">working on a paper on ideophones and their place in grammar and lexicon I happened to wonder how things are concerning cough.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Romance languages and other which I am familiar with do not seem to have a standard ideophone for it and even less a stable an accepted written version of it.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN" class="">Do you know languages that have an ideophone for cough and even more a way of indicating it in writing?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Thanks,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Raffaele<br class=""><span lang="EN" class=""></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""></span></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><pre class="x_moz-signature" cols="72">--
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