英语词汇meow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	meow
词源	meow. Meow has been the English echoic word for the sound of a cat for centuries. The word is similar to those in many lan- guages (German miaw, Italian miao, French miaou), but the Japanese hear the sound slightly differently as nya nya, and in Arabic our meow is nau-nau. See also cock-a-doodle-do.
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