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This diachronically deals with semantic changes of the onomatopée with the deribation of kara ,koro and kuru. In this paper, we present the meanings in modern languages and the meanings in classical literature (from the Ancient to the Middle Ages), and discussed the common points and the differences. In the Ancient Japanese, the adjectival base kara and koro has the core meaning of "sounds of hard objects touching". koro also has the meaning of "to rotate" like kuru. kara originally depicted ‘sounds of hard objects touching’, which was semantically extended to ‘a big laugh’ in the Middle Japanese. On the other hand, kuru, whose core meaning was ‘to rotate’, was semantically extended to ‘Speaking smoothly’ and further to ‘moving in a hurry’. koro also has the meaning of ‘to rotate’. However, it is a meaning derived from the adjectival base kuru. Both of them differentiated from the originally meaning of ‘to rotate’, kuru became the meaning of "spining", and koro took on a different meaning of "rolling".