WotD: woodpecker

[muckefuck]

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

Comments

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

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.