different between howl vs interjection

English

Etymology

From Middle English howlen, houlen, from Old English *h?lian, from Proto-Germanic *h?wil?n?, *hiuwil?n? (“to howl”), from Proto-Indo-European *k?-, *kew- (“to howl, scream”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian huulje (“to howl”), Dutch huilen (“to howl”), Old French ouler,German Low German hulen (“to howl”), German heulen (“to howl”), Danish hyle (“to howl”),Swedish yla (“to scream, yell”), Northern Luri ?????? (??ir, “howl”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: houl, IPA^(key): /ha?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

howl (plural howls)

1. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.
2. Any similar sound.

3. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.

Derived terms

• Irish howl

Translations

Verb

howl (third-person singular simple present howls, present participle howling, simple past and past participle howled)

1. To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
   • 1627, Michael Drayton, The Moone Calfe

     And dogs in corners set them down to howl.
2. To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
3. To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
   • c. 1809 Walter Scott, The Poacher
4. To utter with outcry.

   to howl derision

Translations

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *s?wol (compare Welsh haul, Breton heol; compare also Irish súil (“eye”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh?wl?.

Noun

howl m (plural howlyow)

1. sun

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiecti?nem, accusative singular of interiecti? (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of interici? (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaci? (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??k.??n/
• (US) enPR: ?n't?r.j?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /??n.t??d??k.??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

interjection (plural interjections)

2. (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

   • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
     (21) (a)      Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
     (21) (b)    ^?Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)

3. An interruption; something interjected

Synonyms

• (grammar): exclamation
• (interruption): insertion, interpolation, intercalation

Related terms

• interject
• interjectional

Translations

See also

• vocative
• interjection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French interjection, borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.??k.sj??/

Noun

interjection f (plural interjections)

1. (grammar) interjection

Further reading

• “interjection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Noun

interjection f (oblique plural interjections, nominative singular interjection, nominative plural interjections)

1. exclamation

Descendants

• ? English: interjection
• French: interjection