I have always wondered about this. The verb for the first person is to 'see'. To a third person you 'show'
For the first person there is 'listen' (or 'hear'). Does English not have a corresponding word for the third person ?
What about Germanaic or Nordic languages ? Do they have a third person analogue of 'listen' ?
AFAIK listen used to be used therefor[sic] but it has fallen out of use nowadays. From wiktionary:
> Listen the watchman’s cry upon the wall.
Edit: formatting
'Hear the watchman’s cry upon the wall' works the same way, no ?
I have clarified what I am looking for in a cousin comment.
"tell"?
Ah! That's not bad but it's not the same thing. Good nevertheless.
I can 'show' (or point someone to a) a sight that I am not myself creating in anyway. The word I am looking for would mean to 'make you hear' in the same may to show is to make you see.
I showed him the distant tower.
I ??? him the faint sound.
play?
I played him the faint sound.