As in: how do you attract its attention?
Pisipisipisi (Romania)
Kittykittykitty (UK)
Muuusmuuusmuuus or Muussi (Luxembourg)
I forget the Finnish version… maybe someone would like to remind me… any catcalling in other languages? Especially interested in Armenian, various Scandinavian languages, Caribbean creoles, Turkish, and Japanese.
How do you call a dog?
Catel (prounounce: Ketzel – the first e being one of those phonetic upside down e’s), often repeated as in: kzkzkzkzkz (Romania)
Doggie? (UK)
Muppi or Muppeli (Luxembourg)
This loveliness of a kitten we met in the Village Museum in Bucharest, and we became friends immediately.
4 comments:
Danish:
cat: miiiis miiiis mis mis mis mis misssssss
dog: vovse, voooovse
'Murkah:
cat: keekeekee (quickly); I normally just make clicking sounds
dog: hey boy/girl! c'mon!
French - for cats and dogs both, I think:
"peeetitpetitpetit"
English - "heeeeeeere kittykittykitty"
German - "miezmiezmiez"
In Japanese - "Hello Kitty!" (tbc)
farsi:
cat --> pishi pishi pishi (pee-she? :-p)
dog --> happu happu happu
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