Words that sound like their meaning

kizolk

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kizolk

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رش - Wiktionary

It reminds me of Belgian French "drache" (noun) and "dracher" (verb), which belong on this thread too.
It can be heard in France as well, and not only in the north (although it certainly is rare elsewhere), but I had no idea it was originally a Belgicism and it came from Flamish!
 

kizolk

Civis Illustris

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Bourgogne, France
"Flamish" sounds cooler though.
 

Glabrigausapes

Philistine

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I was just thinking that the other day that the word "worm" rather sounds like an unpleasant, wriggling little thing. It's monosyllabic, scores high on the sonority hierarchy, has that psycho-semantic value of 'turn, twist' that some other reflexes of IE wer- have: L vermis, S kṛmi-. It's close in sound to earthy words like 'wort', 'womb', 'warm', 'urn'.
 

kizolk

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German "schmutzig", "dirty".
I think it qualifies, although knowing what the word means can sometimes introduce a bias. "Schmutzig" could also sound kinda cute.
 
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