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ideophone

noun
/ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/UK

Etymology

From 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.

Definitions

  1. A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by…

    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.

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