Phonestheme
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Phonestheme is a noun meaning (linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association.
Meaning
(linguistics) A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association.
Word Forms
- phonesthemes
- phonaestheme
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phonosemantics, sonant, semantic, phonetic, tonomorpheme, archiphoneme.
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