Acrophony

/ˈækrəfəni/

Перевод слова "acrophony" на Русский язык

acrophony

Существительное

/ˈækrəfəni/

acrophony

acrophonies множ.

акрофония

Acrophony is a principle in which a symbol represents a sound.

Акрофония - это принцип, при котором символ представляет звук.

Опеределения

acrophony

Существительное

/ˈækrəfəni/

The naming of letters of an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are the same as the letters themselves.

The use of acrophony can be seen in the naming of the letter 'A' as 'alpha' in the Greek alphabet.

The historical process by which a pictographic or ideographic sign comes to represent the initial sound of the word it depicts rather than the object itself.

Through acrophony, the Egyptian hieroglyph of an ox head eventually stood for the consonant /ʔ/, preserved in the Semitic letter ‘aleph’.