sound-symbolic

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. characterized by sound symbolism not-comparable
    — Wagner proposes a sound-symbolic origin, after the sounds these insects [grasshoppers] make. Although this cannot be fully excluded, this word exhibits suspiciously little formal variation for a sound-symbolic formation.
  2. characterized by sound symbolism; (of a unit of sound or meaning such as a word, morpheme, phoneme, syllable, etc.) composed of speech sounds that are not arbitrary but also not overtly onomatopoeic not-comparable
    — "Bouba" and "Kiki" are sound-symbolic labels, not directly imitating any actual sound but nonetheless carrying strong intrinsic associations with roundness and pointiness, respectively.

词形变化

sound symbolic alternative

词汇关系

下位词
expressive ideophonic phonesthemic onomatopoeic

词源

From sound symbolism + -ic.
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