Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals. · An abrupt loud vocal utterance. · The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing. · (video games) A short, repeatable, and unobtrusive voiceline spoken by an NPC.
The sound of a dog barking.
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). · To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. · To speak sharply.
From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionbarkenenm
- Inherited-form mentionbeorcanang · to bark
- Inherited-form mention*berkangmw-pro · to bark
- Derivation mention*bʰerg-ine-pro · to make a noise, growl, bark
- Cognate mentionberkjais · to bark, bluster
- Cognate mentionbarkiis · throat, windpipe
- Cognate mentionburgetilt · to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel
- Cognate mentionbrbljatish · to murmur
- Cognate mentionbeorcang
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