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"etymology_text": "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.",
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"text": "1969 October, William J. Samarin, The Art of Gbeya Insults, in International Journal of American Linguistics 35(4), page 325, JSTOR\nIn insults the ideophone occurs either in its characteristic position, the verb phrase, or uncharacteristically as a modifier in a noun phrase."
}
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"(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."
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "摹擬音"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mónǐyīn",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "摹拟音"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ideofoon"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "ideofoni"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
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"neuter"
],
"word": "Ideophon"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ideofono"
},
{
"alt": "ぎたいご",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "for something not a sound",
"roman": "gitaigo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "擬態語"
},
{
"alt": "ぎおんご",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "for a sound",
"roman": "giongo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "擬音語"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"note": "for something not a sound",
"roman": "uitaeeo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "의태어"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"note": "for a sound",
"roman": "uiseong'eo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "의성어"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
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"word": "ideofon"
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"roman": "ideofón",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "идеофо́н"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "ideófono"
},
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
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"common-gender"
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"code": "xh",
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"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "isifanekisozwi"
},
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"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "idíófóònù"
}
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}
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],
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"(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."
],
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"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
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"ipa": "/ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ).ˌfəʊn/",
"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "摹擬音"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "mónǐyīn",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "摹拟音"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"neuter"
],
"word": "ideofoon"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "ideofoni"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "idéophone"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Ideophon"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ideofono"
},
{
"alt": "ぎたいご",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "for something not a sound",
"roman": "gitaigo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "擬態語"
},
{
"alt": "ぎおんご",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"note": "for a sound",
"roman": "giongo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "擬音語"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"note": "for something not a sound",
"roman": "uitaeeo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "의태어"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"note": "for a sound",
"roman": "uiseong'eo",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "의성어"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ideofon"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ideofón",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "идеофо́н"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "ideófono"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ideofon"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ideofoni"
},
{
"code": "xh",
"lang": "Xhosa",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "isifanekisozwi"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "sound symbolic word",
"word": "idíófóònù"
}
],
"word": "ideophone"
}
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