#ideophone

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See also: ideathesia, sound symbolism, 

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Is there a word for the sound of footsteps?

Ideophones, such as the Turkish word patir, or the Akan word yooyoo, refer to the sound of footsteps of a crowd.

In African languages, words such as peswa-peswa (Thonga) refers to the sound of a lady walking on high-heeled shoes. Keum-keum (Bamunka) is the sound of heavy footsteps produced by an irate person walking fast.

A dil dil, from the Navajo language, is the sound made by several people walking.

A Basque ideophone, txikili-txakala, is the sound made when one walks slowly but with a firm step.

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[jonnynow]

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Not all ideophones are onomatopoeia, but onomatopoeia are kinds of ideophones.   (Indicentally, my computer keeps wanting to autocorrect "ideophone" to "videophone").  Largely subjective, ideophones include words like "chubby" (sounds like a chubby word) or "racket" (feels like a loud noise to say).  My personal favorite is "broken structure," which just sounds like a crumbling, cracking mess of rebar and concrete in an abandoned parking lot.