ideophone

Etymology
. 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.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1969 October, William J. Samarin, The Art of Gbeya Insults, in International Journal of American Linguistics 35(4), page 325, JSTOR
 * In insults the ideophone occurs either in its characteristic position, the verb phrase, or uncharacteristically as a modifier in a noun phrase.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 摹擬音
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 * Georgian:
 * German: Ideophon
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ideofono
 * Japanese: ;
 * Korean: ;
 * Polish: ideofon
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 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ideofon, ideofoni
 * Xhosa: isifanekisozwi
 * Yoruba: idíófóònù