Animal sound designations
Animal sound designations are words in human language for calls and other sounds made by animals. They occur in all languages and are often based on the sound of the animal sounds in question ( onomatopoeia ).
List of animal sounds and their German names
Common associations are given for onomatopoeia, as they are already known to children - that these are consistently very simplistic, is explained in the notes.
Abbreviations:
- ♂ ... male ; ♀ ... female ; ○ ... young animal
- Jg. ... hunter language
| animal | Audio | verbal description | is reproduced onomatopoeia as | Comments |
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| Capercaillie |
scarce , trill , beat , whet / grind (b. courtship songs of ♂) clap (Auffluggeräusch) |
the stanzas ( Gstanzl , Gsetzl) of the Balzarie , see Auerhahnbalz | ||
| bee | to hum | hum hum! | Flight noise and part of the bee language (complex movement and vibration patterns, "dance"). | |
| Black grouse | scarce , schnalzen , grinding, bubbles, noise , hiss , roll , pan milling (b. courtship song of ♂ game tap) | see Spielhahnbalz | ||
| elephant | trumpets and mulling ( "rumble") | comfort! / foolish! | The onomatopoeic “töröö!” For the (relatively rare but striking) trumpet goes back to the radio play series Benjamin Blümchen . But it is by no means the only audible utterance: “Known conspecifics greet each other with a low rumble or purr, reminiscent of a running diesel engine. Calves roar loudly for their mothers when they feel lost. Anxious, attacking and attacked elephants trumpet. " | |
| duck | chatter or croak | quack! or nag nag! | The variant nag nag is preferred by people who were born in the GDR (cf. Schnatterinchen ) | |
| ass | scream, iahen | i-ah! | ||
| owl | scream | Owls clearly show different calls, the (eponymous) u-uuuuh! or shoe! of the eagle owl or the huh-huhuhu-huuuh! or kiwitt! the tawny owl male or female, who earned him the call of the bird of the dead (“come with”). | ||
| fish | bubble | blubb! | is based on an urban myth , which is probably based on the noise of divers, the secretion of air bubbles is only known from a few fish, most fish are literally "mute", but the gurnard is also known, which makes a growling-grunting sound of gives up, as does the Caribbean grunt coral fish | |
| frog | croak | quack! | ||
| Fox | cheeky | |||
| chamois | to whistle (Jg. Warnruf ) | |||
| goose | chatter | chatter! | ||
| Cricket , various grasshoppers | chirp | chirp! | ||
| Hare | muck , squeak (woe) (Hs) | muck, muck! | ||
| deer |
roar (Hr) , orgeln (Jg. Brunftschreie des ♂), report (call the ♂ to the ♀ in the rut), trensen ( threat to the territory of the ♂ for ♂ rivals in the rut), warn (Jg. enticement of the ♀ in the rut ); whet or grind (Jg. the clashing of the weapon ( antler ) that accompanies the turf war ); fright (general warning call in the event of a fault); knören (soft utterance of the ♂) |
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| chicken |
cackle , gogatzen (Oberd.); crows (call of the ♂ rooster) |
gack, gack! , gock, gock! ; kikeriki! |
compare "Gockel"; the cackling utterances are relatively diverse and include warning and lure calls , cf. also onomatopoeic hen (♀ with ○) | |
| dog |
barking , yapping (general approach), growl (threat), whine , (sorry for expression), whine (cry of pain), cry ( ground scream ) (Hd) |
Woof woof! , woof, woof! for barking | Bells barking several dogs together | |
| cat |
mew , hiss (threat), growl (threat), purring (melody), coo (greeting sound) |
meow pffch! grrrrr! rrrrr gurrr? |
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| Crow, raven | croak | krah! | Simplistic, the language of the crow bird is complex and knows several dozen different sounds; the crow is probably called after its utterance | |
| cuckoo | call | cuckoo! | This is an example of how a sound becomes an identifier. | |
| lion | roar | roaar! | an Anglicism of the comic language | |
| Marten (various) | cheeky | |||
| mouse | beep , beep | beep !, beep! | ||
| Guinea pig | squeak or oink | quiek !, oink! | ||
| Mosquito and other insects | to hum | bsss! | a Anglizismus of comic language correctly: bzzz with voiced "s" [ for ] , voiceless German "s" for snakes | |
| Mouflon | to whistle (Jg. Warnruf) | |||
| marmot | whistle (warning call from the guard) | |||
| nightingale | beat , sing | |||
| horse | neigh | how! | ||
| Beef | moo , also börken or bleat | muh! | ||
| sheep | bleating, mowing , bowing ( yr . call of the ewe) | muh !, uh !, muh! | ||
| snipe | quoren (Jg. Courtship call of the ♂) | |||
| pig |
grunt squeak (○ piglet ) |
grunt !, oink! squeak! |
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| seal |
grunt , howl |
Only the howler , the young animal, howls . Older seals generally grunt . | ||
| stork | rattle | literally: the rattle stork | ||
| Dove |
coo, clap (flight noise) |
Ruckediku-Ruckediku | the phrase has become proverbial; from the Grimm fairy tale Cinderella | |
| Birds | sing, beep , beep , chirp , tirilate ; flutter next to it for flight noises (Jg. lift up , brush off, etc.) |
The verbalization of the birdsong are extremely diverse, they range from beep! or chilp! ( Sparrow ) to complex sound sequences, as they are detailed in many bird identification books - there are special words for a number of bird voices, which are also specifically listed here. | ||
| Corn Crake | buzzing (Jg. courtship call of the ♂) | |||
| whale | sing, call | The various whales have very highly developed languages, which even dialect formation is documented. | ||
| hoopoe | ruffling , sulking | wü !, ü! | ||
| wolf | howl | ouch! | a mostly communal chant of territory, communication and sympathy - in addition, the verbal communication of the wolves is as varied as that of the domestic dog, albeit mostly much more subtle | |
| goat | grumble or mow | meck meck! muh! | ||
| complain | generally Jg. the sound of fear or pain of an animal | |||
| to jar | generally Jg. the quiet lure of an animal | |||
| break | generally Jg. the noises of moving wild animals
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Remarks:
- (Hd)There are numerous names for special expressions of trained dogs, such as reporting , displaying (Jg. Reporting sweat (blood)), standing loud (born reporting of game)
- (Mr) Röhren is a vocal expression transfigured in the Alpine myth , which is even reproduced in competitions
See also
media
- ARTE carom, various episodes - to compare the onomatopoeia of German and French children ( weblink broadcast archive )
Web links
Commons : Audio files of animal sounds - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Walter Prader: Hunters' language from A to Z. In: Südtiroler Jagdportal. Retrieved June 2, 2008 .
- ↑ George Frei: Elephants in the zoo and circus. Dump dated July 17, 2012
- ↑ Hubert Zeiler: Red deer in the mountains. Österreichischer Jagd- und Fischerei-Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85208-053-3
- ↑ The cat growls: What does that mean? Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
- ↑ ? Understanding cat behavior and cat language - cat kittens ?. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .