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What is the difference between sememe and morpheme?

sememe | morpheme |

Morpheme is a related term of sememe.



As nouns the difference between sememe and morpheme

is that sememe is the smallest unit of meaning; especially the meaning expressed by a morpheme while morpheme is the smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".

sememe

English

Noun

(wikipedia sememe) (en noun)
  • (linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning; especially the meaning expressed by a morpheme.
  • morpheme

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
  • The word pigs'' consists of two morphemes : ''pig'' (a particular animal) and ''s'' (indication of the plural).
    The word werewolves''' consists of four morphemes: "''were''" (~ man), "''wolf''" (a particular animal), "''es " (plural), and " ' " (indicating possessive).

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hyponyms

    * prefix * suffix * affix

    Holonyms

    * word

    Derived terms

    * morphemic

    See also

    * chereme * chroneme * grapheme * lexeme * listeme * phoneme * toneme