morpheme

Noun
  1. Minimal meaningful language unit;
    It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units (synset 106317223)
    is a type of: language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
    subtypes:
    • allomorph - a variant phonological representation of a morpheme
    • free form, free morpheme - a morpheme that can occur alone
    • bound form, bound morpheme - a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
    • classifier - a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
    • ending, termination - the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

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