chroneme

English

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”). Synchronically, chrono- +‎ -eme.

Noun

chroneme (plural chronemes)

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

Related terms

• chronemic
• chronemical
• chronemically
• chronemics
• chrono-

Translations

chroneme

• Dutch: chroneem (nl) n
• Finnish: kroneemi
• French: chronème (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Chronem n
• Swedish: kronem n

Anagrams

• choremen, chromene