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wow>TintinnabulationNow THAT's interesting - in Hebrew, we have a word that sounds exactly like what it means - and it could be easily used as wow's word above - L'TZEL'TZEL - which is the verb for "to ring" (the bells) - as in telefon sheli l'tzel'tzel (my telephone 'is ringing').  Shoshannah
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Dear bridget96: re: spit
spit or [Chiefly Brit.] spat, spit4ting 5ME spitten < OE spittan, akin to Dan spytte: for IE base see SPEW6
1 to eject from within the mouth
2 to eject, throw (out), emit, or utter explosively !to spit out an oath
The Superintendent of the Mass Public Health Biologic Labs was Danish, and he said jokingly that Danish was not a language, it was a throat disease.
It does sound as though the Danish origin of "spit" might very well have been ononmatopoeic.
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Disagree, Sparteye, m'dear. I believe he indeed borrowed it...
Sorry to be dense, but about what do we disagree? I think he saw or heard "grinch," and thought, "Hey - that sounds just like a vile old miser. I'll use it." I think that's what you think too, yes?
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Sparteye, Silly moi: I thought you said he'd made it up to sound like a vile old miser! (don't ever ask me to work in a courtroom  ) (apologies on the misreading)
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Blubber Sorry, I've just come across "penguin hoosh" in another thread, and it brought this word into my mind. I'm sure I can think of better ones...
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Dear Marianna: I think the second part of penguin hoosh is onomatopoeic for the regurgitation I would be unable to restrain.
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