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morphophoneme

morp·hop·ho·neme

UK/ˌmɔːfə(ʊ)ˈfəʊniːm/ US/ˌmɔɹfoʊˈfoʊnim/ uncommon

noun

1.

(linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

Origin

From morpho- + phoneme.

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