... thick heavy body falling into the water." Under plump we read, "that the radical image is the sound made by a compact body falling into the water, or of a mass of wet falling to the ground. He smit den sten in't water, plump! seg dat, 'He threw the stone into the water; it cried plump!' Plumpen, to make the noise represented by plump, to fall with such a ... — Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
...
