morpheme

See also: Morpheme and morphème

Contents

EnglishEdit

WOTD – 17 May 2012

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EtymologyEdit

From French morphème.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔː(ɹ)fiːm/

NounEdit

morpheme ‎(plural morphemes)

1. (linguistics) A smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".

   The word pigs consists of two morphemes: pig (a particular animal) and s (indication of the plural).

   The word werewolves' consists of four morphemes: "were" (~ man), "wolf" (a particular animal), "es" (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).

SynonymsEdit

• See also Wikisaurus:morpheme

HyponymsEdit

• prefix
• suffix
• affix

HolonymsEdit

• word

Derived termsEdit

• morphemic

Related termsEdit

Related terms

allomorph bound morpheme free morpheme lemma

lexeme sememe word form

TranslationsEdit

smallest linguistic unit

• Arabic: مُرْفِيم m ‎(murfīm), مُرْفِيم m ‎(morfem)
• Armenian: ձեւույթ ‎(jewuytʿ)
• Asturian: morfema m
• Balinese: ᬭᬸᬧᬩᬕ ‎(rupabaga)
• Belarusian: марфема f ‎(marféma)
• Bulgarian: морфема (bg) f ‎(morféma)
• Catalan: morfema (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詞素 (zh), 词素 (zh) ‎(císù)

• Czech: morfém (cs) m
• Dutch: morfeem (nl) n
• Esperanto: morfemo
• Estonian: morfeem
• Faroese: morfem n
• Finnish: morfeemi (fi)
• French: morphème (fr) m
• Galician: morfema m
• Georgian: მორფემი ‎(morpemi)
• German: Morphem (de) n
• Greek: μόρφημα (el) ‎(mórfima)
• Hungarian: morféma (hu)
• Icelandic: myndan f, morfem f, minnsta merkingarbær eining mál (is) f
• Ido: morfemo (io)
• Italian: morfema (it) m

• Japanese: 形態素 (ja) ‎(けいたいそ, keitaiso)
• Khmer: រូបសព្វតា ‎(ruup sɑp taa)
• Korean: 형태소 (ko) ‎(hyeong-taeso)
• Latin: morphema
• Macedonian: морфема f ‎(morféma)
• Malay: morfem
• Mongolian: бүтээвэр (mn) ‎(büteever)
• Persian: تكواژ ‎(takvâž)
• Polish: morfem (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: morfema (pt) m
• Romanian: morfem (ro) n
• Russian: морфе́ма (ru) f ‎(morféma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морфе́ма f, мо̀рфе̄м f

  Roman: morféma f, mòrfēm (sh) f

• Slovak: morféma f
• Spanish: morfema (es) m
• Swedish: morfem (sv)
• Tagalog: multuran
• Thai: หน่วยคำ ‎(nùay kam)
• Ukrainian: морфема f ‎(morféma)
• Vietnamese: hình vị
• Welsh: morffem

See alsoEdit

• chereme
• chroneme
• grapheme
• lexeme
• listeme
• phoneme
• toneme