sigh
The sigh is a nonverbal and para verbal as grief, pain, disappointment, sadness, longing and resignation brings vocalization, the unpleasant emotional feelings expressed. Related expressions of discontent are the groans (especially in heavy physical, but also with psychological stress) and the moaning (which can be but also an expression of pleasurable excitement).
sigh
Sighing is commonly regarded as a sign of a secret sorrow, a silent sadness . In Otfried of Weissenburg , emergency core and other upper German authors, the forms are surfed , süften , supfen , in Low German surfed and zuften , and with another final sound of the root word searched , breed , Dutch breed , Swedish sucka in Wulfila svogjan . The final syllables zen , ten , jan , and the doubling of the palate sound in Swedish sucka designate an intensive, the root word of which is preserved in Anglo-Saxon seofian , sican , English to sigh and in Sami sagam . These are direct imitations of the sound associated with the sigh, which at the end of the word is sometimes expressed with the f , sometimes with the ch or g . From the last form shows that disease , faint , sickly and addiction figures from ancient looking , sickly or sigh are. With Otfrieds there is quimon for sigh (lat. Gemere ), which in the Lower Saxon quimen means “ sick ”. A sigh is often uttered in or after stressful situations and has a liberating and / or relieving effect. In literature, the term is associated with the spoken word (for example: "Life is difficult!" He sighed / groaned / groaned). In this case, the spoken sentence is associated with increased exhalation, which also precedes and / or follows the spoken sentence. In addition, the pitch of the sentence melody is lowered. Expression, especially when unconsciously uttered, is a form of non-verbal communication , but when used consciously, it is an interjection .
moan
Moaning is a perceptible expression of persistent breathing associated with sighing, on the one hand as a sign of great languor , emotional stress , physical exertion and severe pain , on the other hand as a sign of comfort , pleasure and sexual arousal .
Variants of the term can be found in Low German and other dialects as standing , in Swedish in the intensive stanka formed from it , Icelandic stianka , in Greek στενειν, στενάζειν , from which the Greek form άσθενειν , to be sick, is derived, in Bohemian stonani , where also Stonani the disease is. It is an immediate onomatopoeia of the groaning sound, and is related to tones . Instead of this word, the Lower Saxon used kümen , Ottfried kumen , (see Kaum und Kummer ) as well as klhnen , Swedish klanka , (see: Klingen , Klang ,) and anken .
groan
Groan is an interjection from the Ach! formed verb for onomatopoeic articulation of a pain.
At the same time, it is the intensive of the outdated German achen , which also occurs in Old Franconian and Alemannic agan and ahan , as in French ahanner , Britannic ochain , Greek αχειν and αχθειν , English to ake and Slavonian ochati . Even the Greeks had the intensive οχθιζειν . Lower Saxon dialects also expressed groans through anken and janken .
"Sigh", "moan", "groan"
Inflective forms such as sigh , groan etc. owe their widespread use to Erika Fuchs , the German translator of Disney comics such as Mickey Mouse in the first decades of the post-war period. From the comic language they went not only into the chat language (here typographically often marked with asterisks , so * sigh * etc.), but also as the spoken colloquial language, where they function as interjections .
See also
- Bridge of Sighs
- Red Sigh (also called Leipzig Sigh and Sigh)
- Catathrenia , sleep- related moans
- Grunting (tennis)
literature
- Erika Thomalla: With ailments. Sigh in the 18th century . In: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte 91, 2017, no . 1, pp. 1–17 ( doi: 10.1007 / s41245-017-0029-z ).
