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kiki

Usage category: uncommon

Recognition: 21%

Book: ku lili

Coined era: post-pu

Coined year: 2020

spiky, sharp, angle, point, triangular

commentary

The word is loaned from the 2001 Vilanyur S Ramachandran & Edward Hubbard version of Wolfgang Köhler's 1912 psycholinguistic experiment. The experiment studied sound symbolism on the words "bouba" and "kiki".

lipu ku translations

spiky², sharp¹, angle⁰, point⁰

origin

Creator(s): jan Olipija, akesi kon Nalasuni

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