OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 546

morpheme

/ˈmɔː.fiːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
morfema
The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.
Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.
There is therefore a natural tendency in both American and European structural linguistics to insist that the word should be syntactically decomposed. For writers such as Hockett (…
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