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