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echoism

noun

Etymology

From echo + -ism.

  1. derived from ἠχώ
  2. derived from ēchō
  3. derived from ēccō
  4. inherited from eccho
  5. suffixed as echoism — “echo + ism”

Definitions

  1. The practice of creating words or language by imitating sounds from the environment.

    • One possibility is that language developed from echoism, i.e. from attempts of early humans to imitate natural sounds and react vocally to emotions.
    • That is the simple account of the motivation for the phenomenon of sound symbolism or echoism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for echoism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA