Ling.
a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
[ 1875-80 ]
Ling.
a nonarbitrary connection between phonetic features of linguistic items and their meanings, as in the frequent occurrence of close vowels in words denoting smallness, as petite and teeny-weeny.
[ 1875-80 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012