strangulated

Polish translation: docisniete / zduszone / przyduszone

17:23 Sep 11, 2005
English to Polish translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
English term or phrase: strangulated
Signum, gleubh-, gher-, gerebh-, gno- (the root of "narration")—is it only an accident that these words or roots not only "originally" mean the act of cutting, scratching, or pointing but express that act with a strangulated "guh," the throat's closure, plus some consonant?
Krzysztof Hoffmann
Local time: 23:34
Polish translation:docisniete / zduszone / przyduszone
Explanation:
kilka propozycji; mam wrazenie, ze troche dowolnosci w tym kontekscie nie przeszkadza, choc moze istnieje w jezykoznawstwie jakis termin na to;
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Ensor
Local time: 06:34
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jakoś nie przekonałem się do końca, ale niemniej strokrotne dzięki
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Summary of answers provided
3symboliczny gardlowy dzwiek "guh"
Malgorzata Marciniak
2 +1docisniete / zduszone / przyduszone
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symboliczny gardlowy dzwiek "guh"


Explanation:
spolgloska gardlowa albo, moim zdaniej lepiej, symboliczny gardlowy dzwiek "guh". O symbolizmie dzwiekow sporo w sieci:
Cyt.1
"Sound symbolism is not a very satisfactory term but it is a familiar one to cover a phenomenon which has been noted and studied over very many years, the apparent appropriateness of the sound-structures of many individual words for their meanings."
Cyt.2
900 pages of sound symbolism


    Reference: http://www.percepp.demon.co.uk/soundsmb.htm
    Reference: http://www.trismegistos.com/
Malgorzata Marciniak
Local time: 23:34
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Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
docisniete / zduszone / przyduszone


Explanation:
kilka propozycji; mam wrazenie, ze troche dowolnosci w tym kontekscie nie przeszkadza, choc moze istnieje w jezykoznawstwie jakis termin na to;

Ensor
Local time: 06:34
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jakoś nie przekonałem się do końca, ale niemniej strokrotne dzięki

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Joanna Borowska: wiem, że to niczego nie dowodzi, ale na zajęciach z fonetyki angielskiej nigdy terminu "strangulated sounds" nie słyszałam; składniam się ku "zduszonemu dĽwiękowi"
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