these are the ones i remember from my high school french text book - who else used son et sens?
cow - meuh
rooster - cocorico
pig - gron gron
chicken - bok bok
cat - miaou
i can’t remember any others
I can only remember that German dogs say, “Wau Wau” (vow vow) and that the rooster says, “ki-ki-riki”
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In the French version of Tintin, the dog Milou (Snowy in English) says something like Ouah! Ouah!
Milou is some sort of terrier, so it would probably translate as Yap! rather than Woof!
In Hebrew, a rooster goes “kukuriku”
Dogs go “hav hav”, or “hau hau” (sounds like how how)
Sheep go “me-e-e-e”
(drowning people, BTW, as well as fish, if you really need a fish sound, go “blu blu blu”)
I’ve never heard a sound for a horse, actually, but the sound is called “tzehala”, which is Hebrew for exaltation.
A pig snores (called “nekhira”), again, no sounds I know off. Maybe because we’re jews, so we don’t talk much about pigs. Usually we just copy the English way - oink oink. But that’s just because we import anything american…
That’s all I can think of.
I pointed out in the other thread on this topic I’ve never heard a dog go bow wow. Arf, errf, ruff, ber-er-er-er-er, and aayieek, aayieek, aayieek, but no bow wow.
We had a dog for a little while, before he ran away (good riddance!) who really did make a sound remarkably like “Bark!”. “Bow Wow” might be a reasonable approximation to the sound made by a Lab when a guest arrives (dogs make many different sorts of sounds), but I’d be more inclined to render that as “RUH ruh ruh ruh ruh… Ruh ruh”. Actually, this is probably the same sound that Irishman is spelling ber-er-er-er-er. I’ve also heard “Wuhf”, which usually seems to indicate that the dog has seen or smelled something that he wants to call to his master’s attention.
Well, I’ve heard dogs go “bow wow”. I’ve also heard them go, “yip yip”, “oogh oogh”, “eek eek”, and “I’m gonna rip yo nuts off sucka!”
The Better Half, consulted in his official capacity as a letter carrier, can’t think of any cute barking noises off-hand, but wishes me to point out that the most dangerous dogs of all are the ones that don’t bark at all, but just stand there and stare at you from the other side of the screen door.
He also reminds me [short hijack] that the worst job-related animal injury he’s ever suffered in 17 years with the Post Office, the one that required forms to be filled out and Polaroid photos to be taken, was inflicted by a cat.
I can’t remember if it’s the snake or the mongoose that makes the sound;
riki-tiki-tiki-tiki…
Isn’t it the mongoose?
The mongoose’s name in the Rudyard Kipling story is Riki Tiki Tavi.
–D