onomatopoesyn.
/ˌɒnəmatəˈpəʊᵻzi/, U.S. /ˈˌɔnəˌmɑdəˈpoʊəzi/, /ˈˌɑnəˌmædəˈpoʊəzi/, /ˈˌɔnəˌmɑdəˈpoʊəsi/, /ˈˌɑnəˌmædəˈpoʊəsi/ rare.
= onomatopoesis n.
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onomatopoeia1553
new-namer1589
onomatopy1658
onomatopoesis1864
onomatopoesy1885
onomatopoeics1934
1885 W. Stirling tr. L. Landois Text-bk. Human Physiol. ii 706 The imitation of sounds by the organ of speech, constituting onamatopoesy, e.g., the hissing of a stream, the roll of thunder..etc.
1916 B. M. Hinkle tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. of Unconsciousness ii. iv. 209 In English the word is ‘to pop’ (popgun), which is here considered as onomatopoesy.
1950 Amer. Lit. 22 20 (note) When transferred to these languages, the rich onomatopoesy of the Finnish original has been lost in translation.
1989 T. D. Browning Diachrony of Proto-Indo-European Syllabic Liquids in Slavic (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Wisconsin) 3215 The distribution of tonality (once onomatopoesy, late loans, and other such irrelevancies are discarded), [etc.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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