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chroneme en · NOUN

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.

Meanings

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

Forms

Relateds

chronemics · chronemically · chronemic · chrono- · chronemical

Translations (8)

nl chroneem (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant) · sv kronem (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant) · de Chronem (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant) · fr chronème (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant) · es cronema (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant) · fi kroneemi (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant) · scn crunima (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant) · it cronema (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant)