onomatopöa
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Estonian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, to do, to produce”).
Pronunciation
Noun
onomatopöa (genitive onomatopöa, partitive onomatopöad)
- (linguistics) onomatopoeia (notional expression of natural sounds with the phonetic means of language)
- Synonym: helijäljendus
Declension
| Declension of onomatopöa (ÕS type 26/koi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | onomatopöa | onomatopöad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | onomatopöa | ||
| genitive | onomatopöade | ||
| partitive | onomatopöad | onomatopöasid | |
| illative | onomatopöasse | onomatopöadesse | |
| inessive | onomatopöas | onomatopöades | |
| elative | onomatopöast | onomatopöadest | |
| allative | onomatopöale | onomatopöadele | |
| adessive | onomatopöal | onomatopöadel | |
| ablative | onomatopöalt | onomatopöadelt | |
| translative | onomatopöaks | onomatopöadeks | |
| terminative | onomatopöani | onomatopöadeni | |
| essive | onomatopöana | onomatopöadena | |
| abessive | onomatopöata | onomatopöadeta | |
| comitative | onomatopöaga | onomatopöadega | |
Related terms
References
- onomatopöa in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “onomatopöa”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009