glosseme

 [glos-eem, glaw-seem]  

glos·seme

   [glos-eem, glaw-seem]
noun Linguistics.
(in glossematics) an irreducible, invariant form, as a morpheme or tagmeme, that functions as the smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling.
Origin:
1925–30; gloss- + -eme

Related forms
glos·se·mic, adjective
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Glosseme is always a great word to know.
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the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as for illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech
one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen
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glosseme (ˈɡlɒsiːm)
 
—n
the smallest meaningful unit of a language, such as stress, form, etc
 
[C20: from Greek glōssēma; see gloss², -eme]

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