Onomatopoeia
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Onomatopoeia is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests a sound that it refers to. Common onomatopoeias in English include animal noises s
A sign in a shop window proclaims that these silent clocks make "No Tic Tac", in imitation of the sound of a clock.
According to Musurgia Universalis (1650), the hen makes "to to too", while chicks make "glo glo glo".
A bang flag gun, a novelty item
A sound effect of breaking a door
Ideophone
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An ideophone is a member of the class of words that depict sensory imagery or sensations, evoking ideas of action, sound, movement, color, or shape. The class of ideophones is the least common syntact
Onomatopoeia
…and its vowels have not changed as they have in the word furrow. Verba dicendi ('words of saying') are a method of integrating onomatopoeic words and ideophones into grammar. Sometimes, things are named from the sounds they make. In English, for example, there is the universal fastener which is named for the…
A sculpture demonstrating an example of Japanese sound symbolism, "jaan!" (ジャーン)