A rooster says 'cock-a-doodle-doo' in English and 'kikeriki' in German

Even words meant to imitate the same real sound vary sharply between languages, because each language fits the sound into its own set of pronounceable syllables. A dog's bark is 'woof' in English, 'wan wan' in Japanese, and 'guau guau' in Spanish; the same rooster call becomes 'cocorico' in French and 'kukeleku' in Dutch.

— Cross-linguistic phonetics scholarship, Onomatopoeia — comparative animal-sound onomatopoeia