Human sounds sometimes provide instances of onomatopoeia, as when mwah is used to represent a kiss. In speaking of a mishap involving an audible arcing of electricity, the word zap is often used (and its use has been extended to describe non-auditory effects generally connoting the same sort of localized but thorough interference or destruction similar to that produced in short-circuit sparking). Machines and their sounds are also often described with onomatopoeia: honk or beep-beep for the horn of an automobile, and vroom or brum for the engine. Some other very common English-language examples are hiccup, zoom, bang, beep, moo, and splash. In the case of a frog croaking, the spelling may vary because different frog species around the world make different sounds: Ancient Greek brekekekex koax koax (only in Aristophanes' comic play The Frogs) probably for marsh frogs English ribbit for species of frog found in North America English verb croak for the common frog. Thus, words that imitate sounds can be said to be onomatopoeic or onomatopoetic and echomimetic. The word ὴχομιμητικό ( ēchomimētico) derives from ὴχώ, meaning 'echo' or 'sound', and μιμητικό, meaning 'mimetic' or 'imitating'. Onomatopoeia can differ between languages: it conforms to some extent to the broader linguistic system hence the sound of a clock may be expressed as tick tock in English, tic tac in Spanish and Italian (shown in the picture), dī dā in Mandarin, kachi kachi in Japanese, or tik-tik in Hindi.Īlthough in English the term onomatopoeia means 'the imitation of a sound', the compound word in Greek: ονοματοποιία, romanized: onomatopoiía, lit.'name making'. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as oink, meow (or miaow), roar, and chirp. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia (also onomatopeia in American English) is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Wrong answers score 0 points.A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims these silent clocks make "No Tic Tac", in imitation of the sound of a clock.
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