From French morphème, equivalent to morph + -eme. Ultimately from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “shape, form”).
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- The word pigs consists of two morphemes: pig (a particular animal) and s (indication of the plural).
- The word werewolves consists of three morphemes: were (~ man), wolf (a particular animal), es (plural).
- The word feet consists of two morphemes: foot (a body part) and i-mutation (plural).
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morpheme (plural morphemes)
- (linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:morpheme
- Coordinate terms: chereme, chroneme, grapheme, lexeme, listeme, phoneme, sememe, taxeme, toneme
smallest linguistic unit
- Afrikaans: morfeem
- Albanian: morfemë (sq) f
- Arabic: مُورْفِيم m (mōrfēm), مُورْفِيم m (mūrfīm), مَقْطَع صَرْفِيّ m (maqṭaʕ ṣarfiyy)
- Armenian: ձեւույթ (hy) (jewuytʻ)
- Asturian: morfema m
- Azerbaijani: morfem
- Balinese: ᬭᬸᬧᬩᬕ (rupabaga)
- Bashkir: морфема (morfema)
- Belarusian: марфе́ма f (marfjéma), марфэ́ма f (marféma) (Taraškievica)
- Bulgarian: морфе́ма (bg) f (morféma)
- Catalan: morfema (ca) m
- Cebuano: morpheme
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 詞素／词素 (zh) (císù), 語素／语素 (zh) (yǔsù)
- Czech: morfém (cs) m
- Danish: morfem (da) n
- Dutch: morfeem (nl) n, woorddeel (nl) n
- Esperanto: morfemo
- Estonian: morfeem
- Faroese: morfem n
- Finnish: morfeemi (fi)
- French: morphème (fr) m
- Galician: morfema (gl) m
- Georgian: მორფემი (morpemi)
- German: Morphem (de) n
- Greek: μόρφημα (el) n (mórfima)
- Hebrew: מוֹרְפֶמָה (he) f (morfema)
- Hindi: रूपिम m (rūpim)
- Hungarian: morféma (hu)
- Icelandic: myndan f, morfem f, minnsta merkingarbær eining mál (is) f
- Ido: morfemo (io)
- Indonesian: morfem (id)
- Italian: morfema (it) m
- Japanese: 形態素 (ja) (けいたいそ, keitaiso)
- Kazakh: морфема (morfema)
- Khmer: រូបសព្ទតា (ruupsaptĕəʼtaa), មូលតា (km) (muulĕəʼtaa)
- Korean: 형태소(形態素) (ko) (hyeongtaeso)
- Kyrgyz: морфема (morfema)
- Latin: morphema
- Latvian: morfēma (lv) f
- Lithuanian: morfema f
- Macedonian: морфе́ма f (morféma)
- Malay: morfem
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: бүтээвэр (mn) (büteever), морфем (mn) (morfem)
- Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠲᠦᠭᠡᠪᠦᠷᠢ (bütügebüri)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: morfem (no) n
- Persian: تکواژ (fa) (takvâž)
- Polish: morfem (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: morfema (pt) m
- Romanian: morfem (ro) n
- Russian: морфе́ма (ru) f inan (morféma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: морфе́ма f, мо̀рфе̄м f
- Roman: morféma f, mòrfēm (sh) f
- Slovak: morféma f
- Slovene: morfem (sl) m
- Spanish: morfema (es) m
- Swahili: mofimu
- Swedish: morfem (sv) n
- Tagalog: multuran, morpema (tl)
- Tajik: морфема (morfema)
- Thai: หน่วยคำ (nùai-kam)
- Tibetan: སྒྲ་དོམ་ཕྲ་མོ (sgra dom phra mo)
- Turkish: biçimbirim (tr), morfem (tr), biçim birimi (tr)
- Ukrainian: морфе́ма f (morféma)
- Uzbek: morfema (uz)
- Vietnamese: hình vị (vi) (形位)
- Welsh: morffem, morffemau f pl
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