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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2009-02-23 09:47 am
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WotD: woodpecker

  1. der Specht
  2. de specht
  3. el carpinterito
  4. el picot
  5. le pic
  6. taradr y coed
  7. an cnagaire
  8. 딱따구리
  9. 啄木鳥 zhuómùniǎo

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly looks that way. Martin lists 딱딱 as an onomatopoeia for "with repeated bangs (crashes, cracks, thuds, smashes)". It spawns a whole family of related sound-symbolic words including 딱다그르르 and 딱다글딱다글, either of which could be the basis for 딱따구리.