Day: October 18, 2012

Here are some more examples of reduplicative (or semi-reduplicative) phenomimes and/or psychomimes that I recently ran across. I’ve written about them [broken link! FIXME] before ([broken link! FIXME] twice). I’ve given up trying to determine which are technically phenomimes and which are technically psychomimes – the boundary between them seems awfully fuzzy. I suspect things dealing with mood and feeling should be called psychomimes and those dealing with taste (such as most of those below) should be called phenomimes. But aren’t tastes feelings, too? (The -하다 [-hada] are just the verbal-making suffix)
섭섭(-하다) [seopseop] = to be disappointed, to be sad
새콤달콤(-하다) [saekomdalkom] = to be sweet and sour
쫄깃쫄깃(-하다) [jjolgitjjolgit] = to be chewy
바삭바삭(-하다) [basakbasak] = to be crispy
아삭아사(-하다) [asakasak] = to be crunchy
살살 [salsal] = softly
[Update (2015-10-08): I decided to create a consolidated list of examples, which I can update periodically.]