Here are some more examples of reduplicative (or semi-reduplicative) phenomimes and/or psychomimes that I recently ran across. I’ve written about them before (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.]
