minimum free form
Linguistics
noun
The smallest meaningful unit into which a linguistic element, structure, or utterance can be subdivided; a minimal free form.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), linguist.
- civilisade
- civilisation
- civilise
- civilist
- civility
- civilizable
- civilizade
- civilization
- civilizational
- civilizatory
- civilize
- civilizedness
- civilizee
- civilizer
- civil law
- civil libertarian
- civil liberty
- civil lines
- Civil List
- Civil List pension
- Civil Lord
- civilly
- civil magistrate
- civil marriage
- civilness