| 单词 | toneme |
| 释义 | toneme in British English (ˈtəʊniːm) noun linguistics a phoneme that is distinguished from another phoneme only by its tone Derived forms tonemic (toˈnemic) adjective Word origin C20: from tone + -emetoneme in American English (ˈtounim) noun a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language Swedish has two tonemes Word origin [1920–25; tone + -eme]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: audio, follow-up, montage, tie-in, zipper-eme is a suffix used principally in linguistics to form nouns with the sense “significantcontrastive unit,” at the level of language specified by the stem. Other words thatuse the affix -eme include: morpheme, tagmeme |
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