chroneme
Meanings
Plural: chronemes
Noun
- A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, chrono- + -eme.
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