It is an archaic word which is not often used, originating from the
ideophone nyoto (to go down, to sink), from which the noun senyo(to) has been derived.
(15.) This placename is itself multi-morphemic as pwenty is a placename suffix meaning 'range, hills' and lerrere is an
ideophone meaning 'swish' or 'whoosh'.
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By using the
ideophone bihli (gliding or falling apart), Makhambeni illustrates that this person's belly was so big that it rested comfortably on his knees.
It is quite another to learn that his farm came to be known as "Chigodore," the name being derived from the Shona
ideophone godo, "of striking someone on the head with a stick."
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He did his Master's dissertation on Tsonga folk tales and his Doctorate, in 1982, on `the
ideophone, or onomatopoeia, in African languages'.
Onomatopoeia is of course an essential part of
ideophones. Doke describes the
ideophone as "A vivid representation of an idea in sound [...] a word, often onomatopoeic, which describes a predicate, qualificative or adverb in respect to manner, colour, sound, smell, action, state or intensity." (Doke 118 as quoted in Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz).
We have also discussed the nature of the two verb types that appear in the construction, identifying the first one as a neutral verb unspecified for manner, and the second as an
ideophone that supplies such manner specification.
The use of the
ideophone khuhle in "kuhlwile khuhle", suggests that the employer thought the black worker was a fool who lacked knowledge about his rights.