monemen.
/ˈmɒniːm/, /ˈməʊniːm/, U.S. /ˈmoʊˌnim/ Linguistics.
In the terminology of some linguists: a minimal and indivisible morphological unit; = morpheme n.
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1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form i. 9 In the modern school of Geneva,..there is a tendency to use the otherwise unknown term moneme for the American morph.
1960 H. Marchand Categories Present-day Eng. Word-formation x. 367 The result of blending is, indeed, always a moneme, i.e. an unanalysable, simple word, not a motivated syntagma.
1970 Eng. Stud. 51 446 It is note-worthy that Anglian ald often becomes old (in o-areas) in ME nicknames like Oldman but not in Christian names like Aldith, Aldred etc. which are somewhat fossilized and no longer associated with the moneme.
1989 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. in Lang. Teaching 27 219 The foundation of it all is a parataxis lacking modifiers, which operates by means of some functional monemes (they could take the form of autonomous monemes).
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