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Word: Ideophone
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century; earliest use found in Alexander Ellis (1814–1890), phonetician and mathematician
Definition:
A term used by A. J. Ellis (in contradistinction to ideograph) for a sound or group of sounds denoting an idea, i.e. a spoken word.
Definition:
An onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic word, especially one belonging to particular classes in Bantu languages.
