ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phonosemantics, sonant, semantic, phonetic, tonomorpheme, archiphoneme.

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