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This is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkins.

Some words imitate the sounds made by the things they describe,

like buzz or hiss, or zip.

For you language lovers, that's called anamotapia.

But what if the way a word sounds could evoke some other feature of an object, like its shape?

Well, a new study suggests not only that it can, but that the same word can do so across multiple languages.

The findings are in the journal, philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B.

The researchers were interested in studying the evolution of language.

Both the ancient origins of language going back hundreds of thousands of years ago or maybe

even millions of years ago, and also the ongoing evolution of modern languages.

Marcus Prolman, a lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the UK.

He says that a century ago, linguists insisted that the words we assigned to various objects

and actions are essentially arbitrary, and that words don't necessarily resemble or sound like the things to which they refer.

There's nothing doggy sounding about the word dog or feline sounding about the word cat.

Well, that makes sense, because different languages have different words for the same thing.

One person's pup is another one's perro.

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