[Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?

[Csilla Kász, M.A.]

Hello,

The Hungarian counterpart of a fake cough is quite similar to the 
Finnish, but is usually said twice:

_Köhöm-köhöm_

the pronunciation is [køhøm]

Best,

Csilla

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Am 2022-03-11 14:06, schrieb Jussi Ylikoski:

> Dear all,
> 
> [mˈm̥m], this discussion sounds interesting! For pronunciation and 
> translations for _ahem_, see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem [1] 
> with the interlanguage links. I just added _kröhöm_ [2] into the 
> Finnish entry at https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem [3].
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jussi
> 
> -------------------------
> 
> 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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>> Hon C Lund University
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> --
> David Gil
> 
> Senior Scientist (Associate)
> Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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> 
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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
>> 
>> --
>> ===============
>> 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
>> ===============
>> Attività e pubblicazioni // Activity and publications 
>> http://uniroma3.academia.edu/RaffaeleSimone
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Lingtyp mailing list
>> Lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
>> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp
> 
> --
> David Gil
> 
> Senior Scientist (Associate)
> Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
> Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
> Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
> 
> Email: gil at shh.mpg.de
> Mobile Phone (Israel): +972-526117713
> Mobile Phone (Indonesia): +62-81344082091
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Links:
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[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem
[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kr%C3%B6h%C3%B6m
[3] https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahem
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