Henna Kotoba No Tsu Ni Naru Yutakana Nihongo, Onomatopee No Sekai / Shodensha Shinsho 083

[Machine Translation] A pounding headache, an aching stomach, a queasy feeling in the chest.... We use these expressions all the time. Even the way it rains can be expressed in many different ways, such as "pouring," "drizzling," "drizzling," "drizzling," "drizzling," and so on. Such onomatopoeia and onomatopoeia are called onomatopoeia in French and onomatopoeia in English. Languages around the world have their own national onomatopoeia, but Japanese has by far the largest number of onomatopoeia. Some have disappeared, but others are born every day. "Renge de tsuka" " Asa zubatto" " Ururu " Japanese people have been familiar with strange words since the Manyo period, and we invite you to explore the etymology of these words and get lost in the rich variety of expressions.

頭がガンガンする、胃がキリキリ痛む、胸がムカムカする…。ふだんバンバン使っている表現ですね。雨の降り方をとっても、シトシト、ザーザー、パラパラなど、何通りにもあらわします。このような、擬態語、擬音語をフランス語でオノマトペ、英語でオノマトピアといいます。世界の言語には、それぞれの国のオノマトペはありますが、日本語は群を抜いてその数が多い。消えていったものもありますが、日々生まれていくものもある。"レンジでチンする""朝ズバッ""ウルウル"万葉の時代から、へんな言葉を親しんできた日本人、その語源を探りながら豊かな表現にドップリはまってください。