Sound symbolism (was Re: tolkien?)

Alex Fink wrote:
> Phonosemantics suggests that
> > 'sound symbolism' occurs
> > in natlangs: this is the idea that to some extent
> > individual phonemes
> > contribute to the meaning of morphemes, which sounds
> > just like what you're
> > describing.
The only "sound symbolism" I've deliberately introduced into Kash is the use
of /-p/, and sometimes initial /p/ and /f/, for concepts that might be
considered "dumb", "funny", "icky" or just somehow mildly unpleasant--
pengop - glue, sticky
sucup - mud
kondrop - stupid
hukop - throw away , akukop garbage
fufu - (nursery) poop, shit

and onomatopoetics/interjections like
fup - fart
fuf - oh shit!
nip - oops (slip and, usually, fall down)
tup - bounce
tip - tap
etc.
but I don't see anything intrinsically funny, nasty etc. about the sound
[p]............

For more information, Wikipedia's
> > article on phonosemantics is
> > at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonosemantics .
> >