Ok thanks to all that replied. I was misdriven by "through oral tradition", I was expecting something that was supposedly transmitted as a linguistic invariant

Ok thanks to all that replied. I was misdriven by "through oral tradition", I was expecting something that was supposedly transmitted as a linguistic invariant. It actually has significantly different names, so nothing close to some diachronic international onomatopoeia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias