kha kha!

    kha kha!

    English meaning: interjection of laughter

    Deutsche Übersetzung: Interjektion of Lachens

    Note: with partly einzelsprachlicher neologism

    Material: O.Ind. kákhati (Gramm.) “lacht”; Arm. xaxank “ laughter “, Gk. καχάζω (from *χαχάζω) “ laugh loud”; Lat. cachinnō, -üre “hellauf lachen”, cachinnus “ laughter “; O.H.G. kachazzen, kichazzen, O.E. ceahhettan “loud lachen”; O.C.S. etc. chochotati ds.; compare Lith. kikénti, kiknóti “kichern”. Similar to onomatopoeic words kük- “auslachen” in Gk. κηκάζω ‘schmähe”; O.H.G. huohōn “ mock, scoff “, O.S. hōhi-līk “ laughable”; with Gmc. -k-: O.E. hocor n. “ derision “.

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    *) The by WP. I 341, 348 f., 399 angefũhrten roots khüd- “bite”, khübh- : khōbh- “feeble”, khenǝ “dig” are not as IE to prove, ebensowenig das from Specht (IE Decl. 263, Anm. 4) angesetzte khü-mo- “crooked”; die from ihm (see 256) angefũhrten O.Ind. Beispiele khalati- , kharva-, khara-, khaṇḍa-, khora- are sämtlich nichtIE origin. O.Ind. khüdati “zerbeißt, chews”, Pers. xüyad ds., could to Arm. xacanem “bite” belong, but also with secondary expressive Aspiration as *kn̥̄d- to Lith. kándu “bite” (somewhat different above S. 560). Zur gleichen root ken- (above 559 ff.) could O.Ind. khánati “gräbt”, Inf. kháni-tum, participle khütá - (*khn̥̄-to-) belong, together with den neologisms khá- n. “cave”, ü-khú- “Maulwurf”, khü- ‘stream, brook”= Av. nom. acc. pl. xü̊ ds.; O.Ind. khaní- “wũhlend”, f. “Mauseloch” = Av. kani- “ditch, trench, channel”; Av. O.Pers.kann- “dig” (k- from kh- from den compounds with us-, ham-). Der anlaut from Gk. κᾱφά̄ν, κηφήν “drone”, κωφός “dull, deaf” is doubtful, also the from Church Slavic chabiti ‘spoil”, chabenъ “ woeful, wretched, miserable “, as also the from Church Slavic chomǫ-tъ “Kummet”, from Specht to Lat. hümus (*khü-mo-) “hook”, Gk. χαμός “ writhed, crooked, humped “ (and χαβός ds.) placed (different above S. 555). For Problem the Tenues Aspiratae, die partly certainly as secondary expressive aufzufassen are, compare Hj. Frisk, Göteborgs Högsk. ArsSer.-Cr. 1936: 2, S. 38 ff., Specht IE Decl. 251 ff. For Slav. anlautenden ch- compare V. Machek Slavia 16 (1938), 161 ff. and J. J. Mikkola UrSlav. Gramm. 174 ff. Zahlreiche O.Ind. words nichtIE origin with anlaut. kh-, darunter die above mentioned, by Kuiper, Proto-Munda 47 ff.

    References: WP. I 336, WH. I 126. compare above S. 497 ha ha.