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yelp
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j?lp/
- Rhymes: -?lp
Etymology 1
From Middle English ?elp, yelp, from Old English ?ielp (“boasting, arrogance, pride”), from Proto-Germanic *gelp? (“boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?el- (“to shout”).
Noun
yelp (plural yelps)
- An abrupt, high-pitched noise or utterance.
- The puppy let out a yelp when I stepped on her tail.
- A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English ?elpen, yelpen, from Old English ?ielpan (“to boast”), from Proto-Germanic *gelpan?. Compare Saterland Frisian jalpe (“to bleep; cheep”).
Verb
yelp (third-person singular simple present yelps, present participle yelping, simple past and past participle yelped)
- To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise.
- The children yelped with delight as they played in the cold water.
Translations
Anagrams
- Pyle
Middle English
Noun
yelp
- Alternative form of ?elp
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thunder
English
Etymology
From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh?- (“to thunder”).
Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian ????? (tondar), Latin ton?, deton?, Ancient Greek ????? (stén?), ??????? (stenáz?), ?????? (stónos), ??????? (Stént?r), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???nd?/
- (General American) enPR: th?n?d?r, IPA(key): /???nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
- Hyphenation: thun?der
Noun
thunder (countable and uncountable, plural thunders)
- The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt.
- A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder.
- An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- 1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru
- The thunders of the Vatican could no longer strike into the heart of princes.
- 1847, William H. Prescott, A History of the Conquest of Peru
- (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- (figuratively) The spotlight.
Usage notes
- roll, clap, peal are some of the words used to count thunder e.g. A series of rolls/claps/peals of thunder were heard
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- lightning
Descendants
- Tagalog: tanda
Verb
thunder (third-person singular simple present thunders, present participle thundering, simple past and past participle thundered)
- To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; often used impersonally.
- (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder.
- (intransitive) To talk with a loud, threatening voice.
- (transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice.
- To produce something with incredible power
Conjugation
Derived terms
- (to say something with a loud, threatening voice): thunderer
Translations
See also
- thundering
Middle English
Noun
thunder
- Alternative form of thonder
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