yelp

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yelp/jelp/

▶noun a short, sharp cry, especially of pain or alarm. ▶verb utter a yelp or yelps.

– derivatives
yelper noun.

– origin OE g(i)elpan (v.) ‘to boast’, later ‘cry with a loud voice’, from a Gmc imitative base.