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phonosemantically

phonosemantically adverb: in a phonosemantic sense.

Adverb

phonosemantically (not comparable)

  1. In a phonosemantic sense.
    • But this is not just a borrowed label: in the Semitic, Kartvelian and Indo-European forms, a native verbal root has been reduplicated to form a noun which characteristically does the action of the verb. That is, the construction of the word in one language has been repeated (and phonosemantically...2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 15

Origin of phonosemantically

From phonosemantic + -ally.

Questions about phonosemantically

What does phonosemantically mean?
Phonosemantically means in a phonosemantic sense.
What part of speech is phonosemantically?
Phonosemantically is an adverb.

Words near phonosemantically in the dictionary

  1. phonoscope
  2. phonoscopes
  3. phonoscène
  4. phonoscènes
  5. phonosemantic
  6. phonosemantically
  7. phonosemantics
  8. phonostatistics
  9. phonosurgery
  10. phonosurgical
  11. phonotactic

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