different between phonosemantic vs ideophone

English

Alternative forms

• phono-semantic

Etymology

phono- +? semantic

Adjective

phonosemantic (not comparable)

1. Combining phonetic and semantic components, as with more than eighty percent of Chinese characters. (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)
2. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to phonosemantics

Synonyms

• determinative-phonetic
• pictophonetic
• semasio-phonetic

Derived terms

• phono-semantic compound
• phono-semantic matching (PSM)
• phonosemantic matching

Translations

See also

• ideogrammic

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