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,
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
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