I think the confused 'huh?' is a near universal proto-word.
Madness string 6702
Like the time between liver and spleen. The time between notes when you wonder if you are alive or dead, dreaming or waking.
My mum says to me, 'you shouldn't romanticise. You shouldn't always go seeing the beauty where there ain't none.' But if I didn't then what would there be to see?