Citations:onomatopœsis

Noun:

 * 1889, Frederick W. Mann in The Physician and Surgeon, John William Keating; Volume XI, №. XI, page #490:
 * As an example we may mention the fact of the speech function in certain pathological conditions reverting to the primary stages of language, the patient designating objects by simple onomatopœsis.
 * 1896, Herman T. Lukens in Psychological Review, The Macmillan Company; Volume IV, page #215:
 * In learning language children adopt those forms easiest to them, using instinctively gestures before words and, later, imitating the sounds of objects in onomatopœsis, which is itself a sort of oral gesture.
 * 1911, Granville Stanley Hall, Educational Problems, D. Appleton and Company; Volume I, Chapter II, page #85:
 * They are quite as designative as onomatopœsis is for sounds in nature and indeed are compared with it.
 * 1931, Walter George Spencer, Diseases of the Tongue, H. K. Lewis & Co. LTD.; page #262:
 * The Greek and Latin names for the frog, Batrachos, Rana, and Ranula, the tadpole, were traceable by onomatopœsis to the animal’s croak in the opinion of Ovid.