pauraque: bird flying (0)
pauraque ([personal profile] pauraque) wrote in [personal profile] pauraque_bk 2009-11-05 11:42 pm (UTC)

That's how I hear it too. You'd expect a sound-symbolic word for eating to have some [m] going on because it's obviously the sound of closing your mouth. (Supposedly that's where baby talk "mama" comes from, also a common one cross-linguistically.)

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