ideophone
A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced…A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
» Splish-splash is an example of an ideophone.
Meaning
1 sensesA word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
Ideophon
идеофо́нideofón
Examples
1 sentencesSplish-splash is an example of an ideophone.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From ideo- + -phone. James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case ofFrom ideo- + -phone. James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.
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Forms
plural: ideophones| Singular | ideophone |
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