"ideophone" meaning in All languages combined

See ideophone on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ).ˌfəʊn/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ideophone.wav Forms: ideophones [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|ideo|phone}} ideo- + -phone Head templates: {{en-noun}} ideophone (plural ideophones)
  1. (grammar) 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. Wikipedia link: ideophone Derived forms: ideophonic Related terms: phonosemantic, phonaesthesia, onomatopoeia Translations (sound symbolic word): 摹擬音 (Chinese Mandarin), 摹拟音 (mónǐyīn) (Chinese Mandarin), ideofoon [masculine, neuter] (Dutch), ideofoni (Finnish), idéophone [masculine] (French), Ideophon [neuter] (German), ideofono [masculine] (Italian), 擬態語 (gitaigo) (note: for something not a sound) (alt: ぎたいご) (Japanese), 擬音語 (giongo) (note: for a sound) (alt: ぎおんご) (Japanese), 의태어 (uitaeeo) (note: for something not a sound) (Korean), 의성어 (uiseong'eo) (note: for a sound) (Korean), ideofon [masculine] (Polish), ideofone [masculine] (Portuguese), идеофо́н (ideofón) [masculine] (Russian), ideófono (Spanish), ideofon [common-gender] (Swedish), ideofoni [common-gender] (Swedish), isifanekisozwi (Xhosa), idíófóònù (Yoruba)

Inflected forms

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