"chroneme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: chronemes [plural]
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. Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|χρόνος}} Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos), {{af|en|-eme}} -eme, {{m|en|phoneme}} phoneme, {{der|en|grc|φώνημα|t=sound}} Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), {{m|grc|φωνέω|t=to sound}} φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), {{m|grc|φωνή|t=sound}} φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”), {{surf|en|chrono-|-eme}} By surface analysis, chrono- + -eme Head templates: {{en-noun}} chroneme (plural chronemes)
  1. A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant. Wikipedia link: chroneme Related terms: chronemic, chronemical, chronemically, chronemics, chrono- Translations (basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant): chroneem [neuter] (Dutch), kroneemi (Finnish), chronème [masculine] (French), Chronem [neuter] (German), cronema [masculine] (Italian), crunima [masculine] (Sicilian), kronem [neuter] (Swedish)

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