Did you know deer made this sound?
Now I know what kind of deer they are: roe deer. I always thought that German was a very specific language, with words for things that we don't have words for. I'm always surprised to find examples of the opposite. In this case, they have no specific name for this deer. It's name is deer.
(Want two more examples? They have only one word for both Story and History, and only one word for both Secret and Mystery. I have a hard time communicating sometimes, when I'm not sure I've differentiated the context enough. Better to just have separate words for different things, IMO!)
Look how cute, lying in the stinging nettles! (Wiki photo) It's not so cute when just this morning I found one of our baby trees shredded by antlers, and how they eat my cypress hedge at every opportunity.
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I admit, I checked to make sure that today isn't April 1st. Those deer sound like something out of Jurassic Park !
Only one word for "story" and "history"? A storyteller like myself could get into biiiiiiig trouble....
OMG if I heard one of our many deer making that noise I would probably join my fainting goats in a faint. That is crazy!
I've heard deer make this sound before...but at the time I didn't know what it was. I just about wet my pants! My friend and I were taking a twilight walk. We stopped at the end of the road to talk. A deer, feeling threatened, made this sound. I think I ended up holding my friend, who jumped into my arms. We both thought it must be some woman-eating wild critter in the woods next to the road. It scared us.... a lot!
I had no idea they made noise! I love seeing deer running through my yard, but I'm dreading losing flowers to them and sick of their poop in my yard. Sophie seems to pick up their scent and off she goes. Have a wonderful weekend!
The first time I heard a deer call, it scared the pee out of me. Thanks for the video... now I can show it to people who don't believe me.
If you didn't show me the pictures,
I would have thought it was a
SASQUATCH. But they probably don't
have those in Europe.
Our deer are quiet, studious types which love cantelop.
I wonder what it says about a group when they don't have words for some things - or too many for another. Spanish has an overabundance of names for tenderness, for example...
Yeah deer make all kinds of sounds. Our Blacktails here in Wa. chirp, if you dont know better you think they are birds. They also will make a snort of warning that sounds kinda like that too.
LOL I was playing the video and my husband was like 'Roe buck?' I was like how did you know that?! Know it all hubby. :D
That's cool though. I bet hearing that for the first time if you didn't know what it was is very unnerving!! Kind of like when I heard my first screech owl lol.
My sister and I used to sneak out to our horse pasture at night and stalk the deer. I don't know how they didn't hear us, but we would sneak up on them to where we could hear them in the brush and we'd mimic their warning call (which is like a high pitched version of a horse's dragon snort) and shine our floodlight as they would run away so we could see their white tails lol! We were silly kids. :) We liked to mess with the horses the same way. You wouldn't believe how close you can get if there is enough cover. :)
>In this case, they have no specific name for this deer.
Lytha, roe and deer are words of germanic origin, so it`s not astonishing that the german name of this deer is similar: Reh
The young roe deer is called Rehkitz or just kitz.
another example:
reindeer (English) = Rentier (German)
BTW, the Middle English and the Old English meaning of deer (der) was animal (German: Tier).
>They have only one word for both Story and History,
>and only one word for both Secret and Mystery.
Geschichte (story/history) and Geheimnis (secret/mystery) are the most commonly used words, but there are still more, for example
story -> die Story
history -> die Historie, der Werdegang
mystery -> das Rätsel, das Mysterium
In this case, linguee.de might be helpful.
-> http://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/search
michael, thanks for the info. i did actually do some research so i knew the origins of deer and roe. i just am continually amazed at how not-always-precise german is!
also, "aufmerksam" - it means *both* observant and considerate?!
the nickname my husband gave me is "reh" - can you guess why? (silly pun)
twice this week we have been woken up by roe deer barking outside our window. it's frightening to wake up this way!
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