[Avodah] Yelulei Yalil

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:22:38 -0400
Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

...

> When a Middle Eastern ulelelates, crying a high pitched "lalalalalala",
> it's a sound of joy. (If the woman in question is the Eim Sisera of the
> 100 qolos, maybe she is happy her son died a hero, a shahid.) Ulelate is
> an onomatopoeia (a word that sounds like its meaning), so could "yelilah".

According to various (not necessarily reliable) sources, ululation can
express either grief or joy.  What is your source that, at least when
done by Middle Easterners, it must be the latter?

> Micha Berger             I long to accomplish a great and noble task,

Yitzhak
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