# Mirad Grammar/Onomatopoeia

    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 |
| English | ha ha | mwa |
| Mirad | hihi | mwa-mwa |

### Interrupted Speech

| Language | Hushing | Pausing or thinking |
| English | shh, shush | uh, um, er |
| Mirad | xux-xux | hum-hum |

### Others

| Language | Laughter | Kissing | Crying |
| English | ha ha | mwa | boo hoo |
| Mirad | hihi | mwa-mwa | huhu |

## 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
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