When you decide to share your library, your sound effects begin to exist outside of your control. They float around on networks and hard drives for other people to experience, and interpret. I enjoy working as a sound librarian. I think about sound effects names, searches, and accuracy deeply.
To learn more about phonosemantics in the context of a wide variety of modern languages, have a look at the cross-disciplinary essays collected in Sound Symbolism, edited by Leanne Hinton, Johanna Nichols, and John J. Ohala (Cambridge University Press, 2006). The editors' introduction, 'Sound-Symbolic Processes,' offers a lucid overview of the different types of sound symbolism and describes some universal tendencies. 'Meaning and sound can never be fully separated,' they conclude, 'and linguistic theory must accommodate itself to that increasingly obvious fact.'