[Lingtyp] An ideophone for cough?

[Moira Saltzman]

Dear Raffaele,

In Jejueo, which was traditionally unwritten, cough is both spoken and
written as "kollokkollok" and the word for cough (spoken/written) is
d͡ʒid͡ʒʰim.

Best,
Moira

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 8:54 AM NAIM Samia <samia.naim at cnrs.fr> wrote:

> Dear Raffaele,
>
> In a number of oriental Arabic dialects one finds ʔæħħæ « cough » and ʔæħħ
> / jʔɨħħ « to cough ».
>
> The sound of coughing is ʔǝħħ (slightly different from the sound of
> feeling cold ʔaħħ).
>
> The verbal form is attested  in standard Arabic : ʔæħħæ  أحّ
>
> Note that it is quite possible that this form is an onomatopoeia since it
> is the only item attested under this same root.
> But that’s just a guess
> Best
> Samia
>
>
>
>
> Le 15 mars 2022 à 12:14, Raffaele Simone <rsimone at os.uniroma3.it> a écrit
> :
>
> Thanks again to everyone for the addenda.
>
> I would like to specify, however, that I was also asking if the ideophones
> have a *written counterpart *and, if so, which one it is (if applicable,
> in translitteration).
>
> Best,
>
> Raffaele
>
>
> l 14/03/2022 11:41, Vijay D'Souza ha scritto:
>
> Dear Raffaele,
>
> In Hrusso Aka (ISO code: hru; named 'Hruso' in Ethnologue), a language of
> North East India, the ideophone for cough is [kjoxuʔ kjoxuʔ].
>
> Regards,
> Vijay D'Souza
>
> On Fri, 11 Mar, 2022, 15:29 Raffaele Simone, <rsimone at os.uniroma3.it>
> 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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Moira Saltzman, M.A. (she/her)
Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics, University of Michigan
Adjunct Professor of English, University of Detroit Mercy
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