In linguistics, the smallest unit of meaning; morphemes are put together to form words, or sometimes a word may consist of a single morpheme Morphemes are themselves made up of phonemes For example, the word "logs" is made up of two morphemes, "log" and "s" -- "s" is a morpheme that is often used in English to indicate the plural
Smallest meaning unit in the formation of a word Free morphemes may occur as independent words; bound morphemes always occur within a word attached to a stem or base word
The smallest contrastive unit of grammar A minimally distinctive unit of meaning in the context of a particular language For example, cats consists of two morphemes: cat and -s, the plural suffix The -s is called a bound form while cat is a free (or stand alone) form dogs also has the -s but it is pronounced /z/
the smallest unit of meaning A word may consist of one morpheme (need), two morphemes (need/less, need/ing) or three or more morphemes (un/happi/ness) Suffixes and prefixes are morphemes
a meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a root word or a word element that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts "Pick" and "s", in the word "picks," are morphemes See also: phoneme
A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts
The smallest unit of language that is grammatically significant Morphemes may be bound, ie they cannot exist on their own; eg -er,un-, -ed, mis- ; or they can be free, as is ball in football
A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words `the', `in', and `girl' consist of one morpheme. The word `girls' consists of two morphemes: `girl' and `s'. the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words 'so', 'the' and 'boy' consist of one morpheme. 'Boys' consists of two morphemes, 'boy' and 's'. (morphème, from morphe + -eme (as in phoneme)). In linguistics, the smallest grammatical unit of speech. It may be an entire word (cat) or an element of a word (re- and -ed in reappeared). In so-called isolating languages, like Vietnamese, each word contains a single morpheme; in languages such as English, words often contain multiple morphemes. The study of morphemes is included in morphology
In linguistics, any word or word part that conveys meaning, cannot be divided into smaller elements conveying meaning, and usually occurs in a variety of contexts with relatively stable meaning
A bound morpheme within a complex word which is a fossil and whose meaning is opaque to the present speakers of the language. May refer narrowly to morphemes which occur in a single word, or more broadly to fossilized morphemes generally
in the arms of Morpheus asleep. In Greek and Roman mythology, the god of dreams. He was one of the sons of Hypnos (Somnus), god of sleep. Morpheus sent human shapes of all kinds to the dreamer, while his brothers Phobetor and Phantasus sent the forms of animals and inanimate objects
A bound morpheme is a prefix or suffix, which cannot stand as a word in its own right, but which, can be attached to a free morpheme and modify the meaning of the free morpheme For example, "happy" is a free morpheme, which becomes "unhappily" when the prefix "un-", and suffix "-ly", both bound morphemes, are attached