Mirad Grammar/Onomatopoeia

100% Onomatopoeia refers the words in languages that represent sounds as they are heard by the speakers of those languages. They are the noise words you see in comics, such as pow or bang bang. These charts show equivalent sound words in Mirad. Often, they are reduplicated, hyphenated expressions like pop-pop. Any onomatopoetic word can be made into an action verb by suffixing some form of -der, if a human or animal vocalization, or -xer if it is a noise made by an object. Some example: hihi....ha ha hihider....to laugh plop-plop....plop, splat plop-plopxer....to go plop, to go splat Human Sounds Consuming food or drink Language Biting Eating food Drinking Swallowing English chomp, crunch yum yum slurp gulp Mirad nyam-nyam, krac-krac yum-yum slup-slup glu-glu Body sounds Language Heart-beating Belching Vomiting Coughing Flatulence Sneezing Snoring Yawning English thump thump burp barf cough cough toot, fart achoo zzzz ho-hum, yawn Mirad tump-tump brup-brup blug-blug kah-kah hwuf-hwuf acuh-acuh zii-zuu yaa-yaa Cries of Distress Language Baby crying Scream Shriek English wah wah ow, ouch, yeow, eek Mirad waa-waa awc-awc iik-iik Expression of Positive Emotions Language Laughter Kiss Crying English ha ha mwa boo hoo Mirad hihi mwa-mwa huhu Interrupted Speech Language Hushing Pausing or thinking English shh, shush uh, um, er Mirad xux-xux hum-hum Non-human Noises Objects Language Balloon bursting Canon, gunfire, machine gun Crash Door or floor creaking Engine back-firing Knocking Dull strike Falling strike Sharp strike Wet strike Crunching, cracking (of sticks, bones, etc.) English pop kaboom, pow, ra-ta-tat wham, bang bam, crash put-put knock knock, tap tap, bang bang, rap bump, thud, thump plop, splat, thunk clang, clink, clank, clunk, chink, dink, tink, plink, ding, ping, conk splash, splish, splosh, splat crunch, crack Mirad pop-pop bum-bum krax-krax bam-bam pat-pat bang-bang, tap-tap bop-bop, dump-dump plop-plop, slap-slap cink-cink, tink-tink, konk-konk splax=splax, splox-splox, splak-splak krunc-krunc, krak-krak Machinery Language Camera shutter Car engine revving Car horn honking Clock ticking Door bell ringing Keyboard striking Telephone ringing Siren wailing Train whistling English click vroom vroom beep beep tick tock ding dong, bing bong click clack ring ring, ringaling wee-woo, awooga choo choo Mirad klik-klik vrum-vrum bip-bip tik-tuk din-don klik-kluk riin-riin ninu-ninu cu-cu Physical and natural phenomena Language Electricity flowing Electric shock Fire Rain Thunder Steam hissing Water dripping Wind blowing English buzz zap crackle pitter-patter crack, kaboom, rumble psss drip drop, plink plonk swish, whizz, wheeze, howl, sigh Mirad bzuu-bzuu psiit-psiit knit-knut plip-plop bum-bum psii plik plok kxuu-kxuu, hwuu-hwuu Animal Noises Animal noises are formed by replacing the final -t of an animal name to a form of -der, eg.: kapet....dog kapeder....to bark, to bow-wow fepet....cat fepeder....to meow, to mew bopet....cattle bopeder....to moo kapyot....wolf kapyoder....to howl serpyet....snake serpyeder....to hiss Here is a fuller list. If you replace the final der of the noise word with t, you'll get the animal that produces it. afekpeder....to bray, to hee-haw akorpelder....to chirp akpyader....to squawk, to screech alcerpoder....to bellow anpiader....to quack, to honk anpiyeder....to croak, to rivet ansanpiader....to honk appelader....to buzz, do drone, to thrum apwader....to cockadoodledoo, to crow bopeder....to beloow, to low, to moo bradepiider....to creak bubopoder....to snort cerpoyder....to bleat cihempelder....to chirp dipelader....to buzz ekpeder....to hinny, to neigh, to whinny, to sneer elpoder....to trumpet epleder....to wail famarpoder....to shriek fepeder....to meow, to mew, to purr fepyoder....to growl fumuspoder....to dook gafapader....to crow gafapayder....to cluck gafapaytuder....to cheep gepiader....to cry gipiader....to quack hirpaspader....to squall, to squeal kampoder....to hum mefapader....to gobble stripyader....to hoot urpyoder....to growl, to roar yopyeder....to croak Acronyms and Abbreviations Vocabulary Formation