Schwelp:

What does Schwelp mean?

To better understand Schwelp, read an article below from journeymama.com:

On one part of this river, there is a city which is said to be the longest standing living city in the world. Many people come to this city to burn their dead and spread the ashes, to study music, and to find India in its potency.

Along the Ganga (river) there are rows of steps, called ghats. The other day, just before sunset, we went out for a little walk along the ghats.

Let me tell you, the ghats are a different place when you have children. They become wild terrain, a place for climbing and sliding, and mothers shudder because they know these ghats have the filth of a thousand years etched into their stone surfaces. And still the children climb.

The ghats are covered with mud and silt from the river at certain times of year, because the river rises in the swell of the water from the Himalayas, and then settles itself back down again. Sometimes children step onto the mud, believing it will be solid beneath them, and instead their feet are sucked in and covered. They have to be pulled out with a loud SCHWELP!