Strident
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:35 am
by William A Hupy
This word runs the gamut, from PIE, Greek, Latin, French And into our English speaking laps. The PIE root is strei, meaning screech.
Re: Strident
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2023 2:39 pm
by Slava
And the noun form for the noise is stridor. There's also a later adjective version, stridulous, which gives us a verb, stridulate.