Chroneme Definition

noun

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

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Noun

Singular:
chroneme
Plural:
chronemes

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 (phōnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōneō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnē, “sound”).

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