whistle
English
/wɪsl̩/
noun
Definitions
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- An act of whistling.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English whistlen inherited from Old English hwistlan inherited from Proto-Germanic *hwistlōną (make a hissing sound, whistle, hiss).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hwistlōną
Gloss
make a hissing sound, whistle, hiss
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- belly English
- berries English
- bewhisper English
- blower English
- blowing English
- fish English
- penny English
- pennywhistle English
- postwhistle English
- rewhisper English
- semiwhisper English
- stop English
- unwhistleable English
- vengeance English
- whisper English
- whisperer English
- whisperest English
- whispereth English
- whisperous English
- whispersome English
- whispery English
- whistle-belly vengeance English
- whistle-blower English
- whistleable English
- whistleberries English
- whistleblowing English
- whistlefish English
- whistleless English
- whistlelike English
- whistler English
- whistlestop English
- whistlewing English
- whistlewood English
- whistling English
- whistlingly English
- whistly English
- wing English
- wood English
- *critare Latin
- quirito Latin
- *ḱweys- Proto-Indo-European
- *hwistlōną Proto-Germanic
- hwistlan Old English
- hwistlian Old English
- whisperen Middle English
- whisteler Middle English
- whistlen Middle English
- whistlynge Middle English
- hvískra Old Norse
- hvísla Old Norse
- hviske Danish
- tilhviske Danish
- whistleblower Danish
- crida Galician
- ဝီစီ Burmese
- 委瑣 Chinese
- hvisla Old Swedish
- hvīsla, hvisla Old Swedish
- hvysla Scanian
- wood
- fish
- stop
- wing
- penny
- belly
- blower
- whisper
- berries
- blowing
- whistly
- whistler
- whispery
- whisperer
- vengeance
- bewhisper
- rewhisper
- whistling
- whisperest
- whisperous
- whispereth
- postwhistle
- whistlestop
- whistleable
- semiwhisper
- whistlewing
- whistlingly
- whispersome
- whistlewood
- whistlefish
- whistlelike
- whistleless
- pennywhistle
- unwhistleable
- whistle-blower
- whistleblowing
- whistleberries
- whistle-belly vengeance