Friday 5 January 2024

Animal sounds and farm calls to animals by people

English versions me, Cork, Ireland:

cat: meow or miaow or purr or mew for kittens, pshhh pwshhh to call cats, 

dogs: woof or grr growl, whistle or clicking tongue sound to call dogs, 

cow: moo calf: maa or mah, sook sook to call sooky calves(they will suck on anything!), hou houss to encourage cows to move. Or HUP. Hou up.

We had a farm with dairy cows so cats, dogs and the cows/calves were the main animals we talked to! :-) There was quite alot of regular converation in English with the animals also, it seemed to go down well with them.

Other animals from books or from less frequent meetings:

chickens: cluck / brrk brrk brr call: here chook chook chook

horse: neigh/whinny

donkey: hee haw

pig: oink or grunt or snort, 

goat/sheep: maa/maah/bleat

duck: quack 

pigeons: coo

owl: hoot

bat: screech


Colleagues in work from Czechia:

duck: kvak kvak
cat: mnau, mnau
cat (when called): tssss, tssss
dog: hav hav (or haf haf)
pig: kroch kroch
cow: muuu, muuu (or buuu buuu)
goat: me-e-e-e me-e-e-e
sheep: be-e-e-e be-e-e-e


I did not know sook was also a word for baby calves

http://www.ulsterscotsacademy.com/scotch-irish/futa/sook.php


cow calling

https://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=710908&DisplayType=nested&setCookie=1


https://www.jstor.org/stable/658633?seq=1

https://archive.org/details/jstor-658779/page/n11/mode/2up

THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST

VOL. X WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL, 1897 No. 4

THE LANGUAGE USED IN TALKING TO DOMESTIC ANIMALS