Note 34 — Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs.

In some of the West Indies the French word crapaud seems to have been adopted by the Creoles to signify either a toad or a frog, as it is much more easily pronounced by Creole lips than grenouille, which they make sound like “gwoonouïlle.” But in Louisiana there is a word used for frog, a delightful and absolutely perfect onomatopœia: Ouaouaron (wahwahron).

I think the prettiest collection of Creole onomatopœia made by any folklorist is that in Baissac’s Étude sur le Patois Créole Mauricien, pp. 92-95. The delightful little Creole nursery-narrative, in which the cries of all kinds of domestic animals are imitated by patois phrases, deserves special attention.