phonosemantically en · ADV
Etymology
From phonosemantic + -ally.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a phonosemantic sense.
But this is not just a borrowed label: in the Semitic, Kartvelian and Indo-European forms, a native verbal root has been reduplicated to form a noun which characteristically does the action of the verb. That is, the construction of the word in one language has been repeated (and phonosemantically matched) in others.
2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 15: