Eldraeic Word of the Day: níaóhál

níaóhál: the sound that a fírastal (cat) makes. It is derived, first, from the onomatopoeia for the sound itself (níaó), and secondly from the emphatic-imperative suffix used when issuing commands.

It is known, after all, that cats speaking to large, clumsy, dull creatures do so almost exclusively loudly, slowly, and in the emphatic imperative.

rrurr: The sound that a happy fírastal (cat) makes; purely onomatopoeic. With a double trilled R sandwiching only a short U, it helps to have a nekomimi-adapt larynx to pronounce it properly, although no evidence exists to tell us whether the fírastal appreciate the effort.