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TABLE I — Continuation
Polynesian Greenlandic Chinese
tan-g-ajorpoq t’nán “to sigh”
“sneezes” d’ién “spirit, di-
sun-g-migpoq “sniffs vine”
at something, sobs”
by a vowel (mostly a in all six languages) or followed by a
vowel + consonant. To the an-form there have been added vari-
ous consonants: velar in 5 languages, such as IE. an-gh “sound
of fear”, Hebrew ’n-q “to groan, to moan”, Turkish engres-/
mgran “to moan”, Polynesian angi “gentle breeze” and Green-
landic angavoq “is depressed”, or IE. kon-q “sorry, fearful”,
Turkish can “soul, life”, Polynesian han-ene “blowing softly”,
Greenlandic qin-g-aq “nostrils”; labials (preceding or following
the n-sound in 3 languages): IE. pneu- “to breathe”, Hebrew
’n-ph “to breathe through the nose” and Polynesian pongi “the
nostrils”; compare also Polynesian man-awa “breathe”; dentals
following or preceding in 3 languages: Hebrew ns-m “to
breathe”, Greenlandic tan-g-ajorpoq “sneezes” and Chinese t’nan
“to sigh”; the 1-sound only in Turkish inleme “moaning, „sigh-
ing”, and r in Polynesian ranga “to blow gently”.
We now compare the nature-sounds with the remark that
the boundary between the emotional sounds and the nature-
sounds is in some indistinct and some of the quoted emotional
sounds could be registered under nature-sounds or vice versa.
We have registered 14 nature-sounds in IE., 9 in Hebrew, 41
in Turkish, 16 in Polynesian, 5 in Greenlandic and 12 in Chinese.
TABLE II
Nature sounds:
Polynesian Greenlandic
n-gara “to snarl” nig-ságpoq
n-gengere “to growl” “belches”
n-gengeri “to grunt” (nig-sáq
n-ge “a noise” “gulping”)
n-getengere “to click
with the tongue”
Chinese
n-gák “beat the drum
and make a noise”
nðng “mutter, mur-
mur”