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chroneme

chroneme noun: a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.

Noun

chroneme (plural chronemes)

  1. A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.

Forms of chroneme

pluralchronemes

Origin of chroneme

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.

Questions about chroneme

What does chroneme mean?
Chroneme means a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
What part of speech is chroneme?
Chroneme is a noun.
What is the plural of chroneme?
The plural of chroneme is chronemes.

Words near chroneme in the dictionary

  1. chronaximetry
  2. chronaxy
  3. chrondrodysplasia
  4. chrondrogenesis
  5. chrondroitinase
  6. chroneme
  7. chronemes
  8. chronemic
  9. chronemically
  10. chronemics
  11. chronesthesia

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