morpheme
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Important, too, was the morpheme a-, which referred to the mouth and, more broadly, to origins.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
For example, the morpheme er-, which qualified most anything having to do with an outer body part, could be stuck to -cho to yield ercho, meaning “head.”
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
Each of the, say, two hundred and fifty passengers on each flight hanging unwittingly on each morpheme.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 12, 2017
The researchers also tested traditional linguistic elements such as phonemes and morphemes.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 21, 2026
In a multistage process of evolution, words describing diverse body parts had changed into morphemes referring to different zones and fused with content words to yield meaning.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
The slips of paper contained the morphemes, which are the building blocks for the entire language.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
Those words are made up of morphemes, small elements that change their meaning depending on how they are combined.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
The word obstetrician, wrote Dr. Young, has as its Latin morphemes ob, which means across, and stare, which means to stand.
From Slate ● May 23, 2012
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