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whisper
whisper:
[OE]
Whisper
comes ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *
khwis
-, which imitated a sort of hissing sound. This also produced German
wispeln
and
wispern
‘whisper’, and with a different suffix it gave English
whistle
.
=>
whistle