Thus the child came, by gradual generalization, to the point of designating a fly, wine, and a piece of money by the same onomatopoetic word, although only the first perception contained the characteristic that gave the name.
The third way in which the first words are learned is this: The idea and the word appear almost simultaneously, as in onomatopoeticdesignations and interjections.
No trace of onomatopoetic attempts can be discovered here.
Absolutely original onomatopoetic words are very rare with children, and have not been observed by me except after the children already knew some words.
Here belong also the onomatopoetic attempts of children, which are simply a sort of imitation.
It is not easy in this to trace so clearly the framing of a concept as attaching itself directly to onomatopoetic forms as it is in a case communicated by Romanes.
In the cultural languages they recur, if at all, only in the onomatopoetic word-formations of later origin.
Notice for example the onomatopoetic effect in 13, 7 and 8: Aus dem bewegten Wasser rauscht Ein feuchtes Weib hervor.
It carried my mind instantly to the throbbing theme of the Niebelungs, onomatopoetic of the little hammers forever busy in their underground work.
So that primitive names were intentionally imitative of natural sounds, for all the purposes of onomatopoetic theory it makes no difference whether such sounds were made by natural objects or by man himself.
This special branch of the onomatopoetic theory is that articulate sign-making had its origin in sounds which are made by bodies of men when engaged in some common occupation.
A large body of evidence was adduced in support of the onomatopoetic theory, and certain objections which have been advanced against it were, I think, thoroughly controverted.
Probably the explanation of this apparent inconsistency is to be found in the fact that Noiré’s special version of the onomatopoetic theory comes within easy distance of a hypothesis which Max Müller had himself previously sanctioned.
If such were the case, we can understand the loss of any onomatopoetic significance which it may originally have presented.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onomatopoetic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: apish; imitative; mimetic; mimic
