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phoneme

noun
/ˈfəʊ.niːm/UK/ˈfoʊ.nim/US/ˈfoˌnim/

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, phone (“speech sound”) + -eme (“unit”).

  1. derived from φώνημα

Definitions

  1. An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the…

    An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

    • It is crucial for the phoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnish phonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of a phoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA