Splish-splash is an example of an ideophone.
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Ideophone
//ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn//
Synonyms for "ideophone" (4 found)
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3 entriesderived
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 16 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 摹擬音 /摹拟音 noun (sound symbolic word)
Dutch
1 entries- ideofoon noun (sound symbolic word)
Finnish
1 entries- ideofoni noun (sound symbolic word)
French
1 entries- idéophone noun (sound symbolic word)
German
1 entries- Ideophon noun (sound symbolic word)
Greek
1 entries- ιδιόφωνο noun (sound symbolic word)
Italian
1 entries- ideofono noun (sound symbolic word)
Japanese
2 entries- 擬態語 noun (sound symbolic word)
- 擬音語 noun (sound symbolic word)
Korean
2 entries- 의성어 noun (sound symbolic word)
- 의태어 noun (sound symbolic word)
Polish
1 entries- ideofon noun (sound symbolic word)
Portuguese
1 entries- ideofone noun (sound symbolic word)
Russian
1 entries- идеофо́н noun (sound symbolic word)
Spanish
1 entries- ideófono noun (sound symbolic word)
Swedish
2 entries- ideofon noun (sound symbolic word)
- ideofoni noun (sound symbolic word)
Xhosa
1 entries- isifanekisozwi noun (sound symbolic word)
Yoruba
1 entries- idíófóònù noun (sound symbolic word)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
1969 October, William J. Samarin, The Art of Gbeya Insults, in International Journal of American Linguistics 35(4), page 325, JSTOR In insults the ideophone occurs either in its characteristic position, the verb phrase, or uncharacteristically as a modifier in a noun phrase.
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