Onomatopoietic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Onomatopoietic is an adjective meaning An onomatopoietic word.
Meaning
An onomatopoietic word.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of onomatopoetic.
Example Sentences
The Heb. ruh, sounded in two syllables, ru-ach, is an onomatopoietic.
In mimesis, words come to be taken for the things they denote, as though they were onomatopoietic (truly mimetic).
Gossip and its original form, "klatz" (Middle High German), were as onomatopoietic interjections originally imitations of a resounding slap, such as happens with a box on the ears or the crack of a whip.
This is not the case, but there is often such a similarity in the onomatopoietics of the most remote languages that scientific linguists are unanimous in discarding them from service in ethnological comparisons.
Word Forms
- onomatopoietics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include onomatopoeian, onomatopoiesis, onomatopoeics, onomatopoesis, onomatopoetry, onomatopoesy.
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