ideophone en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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.
Meanings
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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.
1969 October, William J. Samarin, The Art of Gbeya Insults, in International Journal of American Linguistics 35(4), page 325, JSTOR In insults the ideophone occurs either in its characteristic position, the verb phrase, or uncharacteristically as a modifier in a noun phrase.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ideophones | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
phonosemantic · onomatopoeia · phonaesthesia
Translations (19)
pt ideofone (sound symbolic word) · es ideófono (sound symbolic word) · ja 擬態語 (sound symbolic word) · it ideofono (sound symbolic word) · ko 의태어 (sound symbolic word) · ko 의성어 (sound symbolic word) · nl ideofoon (sound symbolic word) · fi ideofoni (sound symbolic word) · el ιδιόφωνο (sound symbolic word) · pl ideofon (sound symbolic word) · de Ideophon (sound symbolic word) · fr idéophone (sound symbolic word) · ja 擬音語 (sound symbolic word) · yo idíófóònù (sound symbolic word) · sv ideofoni (sound symbolic word) · xh isifanekisozwi (sound symbolic word) · ru идеофо́н (sound symbolic word) · sv ideofon (sound symbolic word) · cmn 摹擬音 /摹拟音 (sound symbolic word)