sound-symbolic
adjEtymology
From sound symbolism + -ic.
Definitions
characterized by sound symbolism
- Wagner proposes a sound-symbolic origin, after the sounds these insects [grasshoppers] make. Although this cannot be fully excluded, this word exhibits suspiciously little formal variation for a sound-symbolic formation.
The neighborhood
- neighborexpressive
- neighborideophonic
- neighborphonesthemic
- neighboronomatopoeicnon-arbitrary
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sound-symbolic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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