Looks like a reduplication.
Sanskrit phrase sarpa iva svasan 'hissing like a snake', from Mbh. book 12.
Words that sound like their meaning
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Sanskrit phrase sarpa iva svasan 'hissing like a snake', from Mbh. book 12.
The abundance of /w/ in Arabic is pure pleasure to my ears. Medial /w/ (& final /w/) isn't particularly common in many IE langs. Latin included.
Aurifex once said something about Chinese people mimicking English speech by saying "wawawa" or something like that. So it would seem they find an "abundance of /w/" in English. And I guess that sound indeed isn't rare in your native tongue; what with all the whats and withs and whiches and wells. Most are word-initial, of course.
Actually, maybe not. Many words that end in O actually end in a /w/ sound, or something very like, even if it's not written.
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Moist.
I've mentioned the heinous word 'squelch', which even the crudest native phonesthetes recognize as unpleasant because:
1. virtually no good English word begins with /skw-/
squeal, squeak, squirt, squaw, squab, squat, squint, squid, squamous, squalid
2. it rhymes with 'belch', which itself reminds one of:
filch, pilch, milch, mulch, gulch
Worst of all, the two associations taken together could produce 'Sasquatch'.
1. virtually no good English word begins with /skw-/
squeal, squeak, squirt, squaw, squab, squat, squint, squid, squamous, squalid
2. it rhymes with 'belch', which itself reminds one of:
filch, pilch, milch, mulch, gulch
Worst of all, the two associations taken together could produce 'Sasquatch'.
Peculiar.
Hebrew 'qadosh', 'sacred', 'holy'. Well, it is perhaps rather cymbals or something like it the word makes me think of, but this line (Isaiah 6:3) was the climax in a lot of ecstatic Merkabha and Hekhaloth literature experiences, where it seems to have expressed the manifestation of YHWH as a plurality (tzebhaoth):
QADOSH QADOSH QADOSH
'ADHONAI' TZEBHAOTH
The 'YE'- or 'YA'-sound apparently "sounds like" 'healing', 'salvation', cf. hebrw. Yeshua, gr. Iason - and the cultic shout Jah! Jah! Ja(kkhos)!
Hebrew 'qadosh', 'sacred', 'holy'. Well, it is perhaps rather cymbals or something like it the word makes me think of, but this line (Isaiah 6:3) was the climax in a lot of ecstatic Merkabha and Hekhaloth literature experiences, where it seems to have expressed the manifestation of YHWH as a plurality (tzebhaoth):
QADOSH QADOSH QADOSH
'ADHONAI' TZEBHAOTH
The 'YE'- or 'YA'-sound apparently "sounds like" 'healing', 'salvation', cf. hebrw. Yeshua, gr. Iason - and the cultic shout Jah! Jah! Ja(kkhos)!
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It's hard to know where to begin with that post, but I'm afraid it's complete linguistic nonsense.
The last part, you mean? Well let us hear some sense then! I wasn't exactly serious.
Sussurus sounds sibilant surely?
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