I thought küçük ("coo-chook") sounded small because it reminded me of baby cooing. I'm not really surprised by this result. Some words are imitative. Probabl

I thought küçük ("coo-chook") sounded small because it reminded me of baby cooing. I'm not really surprised by this result. Some words are imitative. Probably words that are more imitative are evolutionarily selected to remain in human languages because their speakers find them easier to recall. To me that seems like a perfectly good explanation for the phenomena that has little to do with "hardwiring into our brains".