phonaesthesia
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phonaesthesia
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Apparently coined by British linguist John Rupert Firth. From phon- + -aesthesia.
noun phonesthesia
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Any correspondence between the sound of a word and its meaning; examples include onomatopoeia and the use of phonesthemes.
For this latter term, phonaesthesia is doubtless at work, since kring is also ‘the sound of a small bell’.
Similar: sound symbolism
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