"Yes," says Laertes with delight. "I feared that to speak it would make the word impossible to hear, but thou hast heard it and spoken it aright. The vowel is--" and he presses in on his throat "--more choked; it hath not its origins in Latin. In Norway and Sweden, though we share many words in common, they think my language unmusical. Ler," he says, emphasizing that strangled E. "In Norwegian, it means 'laughing.' I think in Swedish it means both?¹"

¹ Laertes is close--in Swedish, it's pronounced with yet another vowel sound, and is part of words related to smiling and earthenware.