echoic (adj.)

1880年; 参见 echo（n.）+ -ic。这是一本来自 OED 的单词。

Onomatopoeia, in addition to its awkwardness, has neither associative nor etymological application to words imitating sounds. It means word-making or word-coining and is strictly as applicable to Comte's altruisme as to cuckoo. Echoism suggests the echoing of a sound heard, and has the useful derivatives echoist, echoize, and echoic instead of onomatopoetic, which is not only unmanageable, but when applied to words like cuckoo, crack, erroneous; it is the voice of the cuckoo, the sharp sound of breaking, which are onomatopoetic or word-creating, not the echoic words which they create. [James A.H. Murray, Philological Society president's annual address, 1880]

Onomatopoeia 除了笨拙之外，既没有联想性，也没有词源学上的应用，它的意思是 word-making 或 word-coining，既适用于孔德的 altruisme，也适用于 cuckoo。 Echoism 暗示了听到的声音的 echoing，并且有有用的派生词 echoist， echoize 和 echoic，而不是 onomatopoetic，后者不仅难以处理，而且当应用于像 cuckoo， crack 这样的词时是错误的； 它是杜鹃的声音，尖锐的断裂声，它们是拟声词或 word-creating，而不是它们创造的 echoic 词语。[詹姆斯·A·H·默里（James A.H. Murray），语言学协会主席的年度演讲，1880年]