different between ideophonic vs ideophone

ideophonic

English

Etymology

ideo- +? -phonic

Adjective

ideophonic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to an ideophone

Anagrams

  • phoenicoid

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ideophone

English

Etymology

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.

Noun

ideophone (plural ideophones)

  1. A word that utilizes 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.

Derived terms

  • ideophonic

Translations

See also

  • phonosemantic
  • phonaesthesia
  • onomatopoeia

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