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yodeler

yodeler

1 8.5
A person who sings by quickly switching between low and high voice, often in Swiss mountain music
  • noun
  • /ˈjoʊdələr/
: yodelista
  • Go, yodelers!

Examples

  • Go, go, yodelers!

  • The yodelers have been so good to me.

  • Like something yodelers would wear.

    Blog text (17)
  • A yodeler, huh?

  • OK, And finally, let's see if we can stack up to Takeo Ishi, a Japanese yodeler in Germany.

  • The talented yodeler entertained the crowd with a lively performance in the mountain village.

  • At the festival, we were amazed by the skill of the yodeler who sang in both high and low pitches.

  • During our trip to Switzerland, we met a local yodeler who shared stories of his musical journey.

Synonyms

singer
vsyodeler
732 1.0

A person who uses their voice to make music, often on stage

specializes instead in a unique rapid voice switching technique
folk singer
vsyodeler
9 3.0

A singer who performs traditional songs from a local culture

focuses on rapid alternating chest and head voice in Alpine music
chanter
vsyodeler
1 7.1

A person who sings or chants to lead a group in a ceremony

performs instead a rapid alternating voice style tied to folk songs
vocalizer
vsyodeler
1 7.1

A person who sings using their voice as a musical instrument

applies a specific quick chest to head voice alternation technique
poet-singer
vsyodeler
1 6.7

A person who writes and sings folk songs that tell stories

uses fast voice alternation as a distinctive Alpine singing technique

Surface Forms

yodeler singular
yodelers plural

Morphology

yodeler = yodel (transparent) = yodel + er

The agentive suffix '-er' straightforwardly yields 'a person who yodels', which is directly predictable from the verb.

Etymology

Yodeler comes from the German verb jodeln, which grew from the shout 'jo' people used in the Alps to send a loud musical call across the mountains. So a yodeler is someone who makes that mountain 'call' by quickly switching between low and high voice.