[Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?

[Jussi Ylikoski]

Dear all,

[mˈm̥m], this discussion sounds interesting! For pronunciation and translations for ahem, see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem with the interlanguage links. I just added kröhöm<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kr%C3%B6h%C3%B6m> into the Finnish entry at https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem.

Best,

Jussi


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Efni: Re: [Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?


Dear all,

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.)

Do other languages have similar forms?

David


On 11/03/2022 11:58, Raffaele Simone wrote:

Dear all,

working on a paper on ideophones and their place in grammar and lexicon I happened to wonder how things are concerning cough.

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.

Do you know languages that have an ideophone for cough and even more a way of indicating it in writing?

Thanks,

Raffaele

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Frá: Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> fyrir hönd David Gil <gil at shh.mpg.de>
Sent: föstudagur, 11. mars 2022 14:47
Til: lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
Efni: Re: [Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?


Dear all,

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.)

Do other languages have similar forms?

David


On 11/03/2022 11:58, Raffaele Simone wrote:

Dear all,

working on a paper on ideophones and their place in grammar and lexicon I happened to wonder how things are concerning cough.

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.

Do you know languages that have an ideophone for cough and even more a way of indicating it in writing?

Thanks,

Raffaele

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Emeritus Professor, Università Roma Tre
Hon C Lund University
Membre de l'Académie Royale de Belgique
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France
Accademico della Crusca
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Attività e pubblicazioni // Activity and publications http://uniroma3.academia.edu/RaffaeleSimone



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