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chroneme

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.

  1. derived from φώνημα — “sound”
  2. derived from χρόνος

Definitions

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chroneme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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