morphophoneme

noun

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

Roots

morphemorpho- · Greek · form, shape phonephon- · Greek · sound, voice phonema-eme · Greek · a distinctive linguistic unit

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