Standard_Etymology_onomatopoetic.htm

onomatopoetic

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'onomato ~ poet ~ ic' => 'A name made in the manner of a poet'

~~~. Gr.: ~~ onomato ~~. = ~~~. 'name' ~~

~~. 'one who is' ~~~ + ~~ Gr.: ~~~~ po~et ~~~.. = ~~ 'to make' . ~ . 'one who is' ~~~~~

~ 'within (- to show)' to ~~~~..... + ~~. Gr.: ~~~. po~em ~~.. = ~~ 'to make' . ~ . 'within (- to show)' ~~~~~~~~~.

~~~~~~~~~~......... + ~... Gr.: ~~.... -ikos ~~... => ~~~. '-ic' ~~~~. = ~ 'l-ik-e' ...~

A name that is made (within a poet) which is (to show) like a sound that one may always hear
arising from 'a pattern of sense,' whenever the pattern is naturally given within one's experience.


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Now, to say the name of the experience so named is to make a sound which is like a sound that
one may hear within one's experience the moment that the pattern is sensed, as a matter of fact.


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