tu, tutu

    tu, tutu

    English meaning: chirping of birds

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Vogelruf; also von andern dumpfen Schalleindrũcken

    Material: O.Ind. thuthukr̥t- m. “ein certain bird, Ringeltaube”; Gk. τυτώ ἡ γλαῦξ Hes., τοῦτις ὁ κόσσυφος Hes.; Lat. tutubüre “cry” (from the owl), compare Plaut. Men. 653 f. “vīn adferri noctuam, quae “tū, tū” usque dicat tibi?”; Lith. tūtú oti “toot”, tutlỹs, tutùtis “hoopoe”; in Gmc. neugeschaffen (or with faltering consonant shift in onomatopoeic word) M.L.G. (Ger.) tūten “toot”, O.Ice. tauta, tutla “murmur”; as old type (*tū with d-present) O.E. ðūtan “einen Tonausstoßen”, O.Ice. Þjōta “howl, einen starken Ton give”, O.E. ðēotan “howl, widerhallen, rant, roister”, O.H.G. diozan “loud sound, clink”, O.Ice. Þytr “ strong sound, tone, Geheul”, M.H.G. duz, diez, dōz “ clangor, noise”, Goth. Þuthaú rn “Tuthorn, Trompete”, O.Ice. Þyss “din, fuss, noise”, O.E. ðyssa m. “Toser”.

    References: WP. I 745, WH. II 724, Mayrhofer 1, 542.