Onomatopoeia - Onomatopoeia

…Onomatopoeia, which imitate the sounds of the outside world with linguistic sounds, are compared to onomatopoeic words, which symbolically describe the state of an event that does not necessarily have an objective sound in a similar way to onomatopoeic words. A distinctive feature of the Japanese language is that in addition to verbs and adjectives of mimetic origin (such as nebaru and nebai), onomatopoeic forms have various forms and grammatical functions, and are frequently used in both conversation and writing.

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…外界の音響を言語音で模写する擬声語に対して，客観的には必ずしも音響のない事象の状態を，擬声語の場合と同様の形式で象徴的に描写する語形を，擬態語または擬容語という。日本語の特色として，擬態起源の動詞･形容詞(〈ねばる〉〈ねばい〉等)のほかに，擬態語形がいろいろの形式また文法機能をもち，会話にも文章にもしきりに用いられる。…

※「擬容語」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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