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71 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

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71 months ago

   wrote:

who was stamping [the ground]/pawing the ground excitedly

My comment:

"- You are not to blame, Erik - she raised her hand, still trembling, and cradled his cheek - take me home please. He nodded, lifting her up in his arms, as if she were a delicate and fragile creature, took her to Gullfaxi, who was ***stamping [the ground]/pawing the ground*** excitedly, and they climbed on him. Then he put his cape over her [shoulders]."

My references:

https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=stamp :

"stamp
B VT
1. to ***stamp the ground***: [person] dar patadas en el suelo; ***[horse] piafar***"

It is "piaffer" in French, which then Collins only translates by "stamp": https://www.wordreference.com/fren/piaffer :

"piaffer [pjafe] vi
[cheval] to stamp"

and WordReference translates as:

"piaffer⇒ vi (gratter le sol) ***stamp***⇒ vtr
***paw the ground*** v expr
Les chevaux piaffaient devant leurs boxes."

https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/paw :

"to paw the ground [horse]: piaffer
The horse **pawed the ground**. = Le cheval piaffait."

I googled "horse was pawing the ground" and got an entire page of matches.

I googled "horse was stamping the ground" and got 4 matches.

I googled: "horse was stamping" -ground
and also got an entire page of matches,
"stamping" being sometimes followed by "its/his feet" or "its hooves" or some other "complément d'objet direct" as we say in French, but sometimes alone too, without a complement, so you can use it alone too.


N.B. It has nothing to do with "hissing", which is one of the meanings of "pifiar" (WordReference and TheFreeDictionary), as horses don't hiss, after checking: https://practicalhorsemanmag.com/health-archive/understand-horse-communication-11362 and https://www.answers.com/Q/Do_horses_hiss .

"to neigh" is: relinchar
https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=neigh

Hope this helps.

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71 months ago

Clara Fernández   wrote:

neighing

My comment:

This word is often slang for silbar or making some sort of whistling sound. In the case of Gullfaxi, it would have to mean that he was neighing excitedly.

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71 months ago

   wrote:

to neigh = relinchar, cf. https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=neigh and horses do not "hiss" (one of the meanings at https://es.thefreedictionary.com/pifiar and https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=pifiar). See my answer. It was hard to find, I admit. Only my knowledge of French made me think of "piaffer", which is how I found the answer!... ;-)