Strident
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William A Hupy
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Strident
This word runs the gamut, from PIE, Greek, Latin, French And into our English speaking laps. The PIE root is strei, meaning screech.
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Re: Strident
And the noun form for the noise is stridor. There's also a later adjective version, stridulous, which gives us a verb, stridulate.
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