onomatopoesy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Another means is the imitation of sounds by the organ of speech, constituting onomatopoesy , e.g., the hissing of a stream, the roll of thunder, the tumult of a storm, whistling, etc."
- "It is to be remembered, too, in saying that the child imitates such familiar onomatopoesies as “bow-wow” (French “oua-oua.”), “tic-tic” (French “tic-tac”) from the nurse, that the nursery tradition of employing these sounds is probably the result of a respectful attention to the spontaneous namings of earlier generations of babies."
- "Because of this difference the onomatopoesy of the original has been lost and also some of the alliterative quality of Finnish poetry."
- "Even Hoxha's wife, Nexhmije (whose name is genuine onomatopoesy) , contributes by attacking the parasitic, opportunistic tendencies of Albanian youth."
- "A little child is not content to call a cow, a cow; it is a moo-cow, and a dog is a bow-wow; but if onomatopoesy is a child-like quality, then our language itself is the kingdom of children."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ὀνοματοποιία