miauw

Beneath the note paper a tiny gray head peeped out from under a doll blanket and a plaintive "miauw" greeted her.

Chicken Little Jane Lily Munsell Ritchie

Yes, it was real talk, quite, quite different from the loud, imperious miauw!

Understood Betsy 1917

I'm ower auld a Pussy Bawdrous to learn new tricks o 'sayin' 'miauw' to the kittlins.

The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

Daisy Watson rejoiced in her part, and had learned the miauw, the mew, the hiss, the dash forward, the howl of rage, and the purr to perfection.

Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief L. T. Meade 1884

Croatian kukuriku mijau Dutch kukeleku miauw French cocorico miau German das Kikeriku das Miau Hungarian kukurikú nyavogas Indonesian kukurukuk ngéong Italian chicchirichi miagolio Japanese kokko-kooko nyaw Korean kkokyo meow Norwegian kykeliky mjaue Polish kukuryku miau Portuguese cocorocó miado Romanian cutcurigu mieunat Swedish kuckeliku jama Thai aek-ei-ek-ek miew Turkish kokoriko miyav Vietnamese cuc-cu-cu meo meo Eric Winters Marble Dale, Connecticut Odd Couples Here is a list of a few Latin-derived words with their counterparts-element for element-in Greek.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1 1980