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morpheme (n.)
"smallest meaningful unit in a language," 1896, from German
morpheme
, coined 1895 by Polish-born linguist Jan Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929), from Greek
morphe
"form, shape" (see
Morpheus
), on analogy of
phonème
.
