Phonaesthesia Definition

noun

(linguistics) Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonaesthemes.

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Origin of Phonaesthesia

  • Apparently coined by British linguist John Rupert Firth.

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