phonaesthesia

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonesthemes. uncountable
    — For this latter term, phonaesthesia is doubtless at work, since kring is also ‘the sound of a small bell’.

词形变化

phonesthesia alternative

词源

Apparently coined by British linguist John Rupert Firth. From phon- + -aesthesia.
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