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sound symbolism
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noun Linguistics.
a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
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IS and ARE are both forms of which verb?
Origin of sound symbolism
First recorded in 1875â80
Words nearby sound symbolism
soundscape, sound shift, sound spectrogram, sound spectrograph, sound stage, sound symbolism, sound system, soundtrack, sound truck, sound wave, Souness
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