Binom
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Binom is a noun meaning (linguistics) A compound word.
Meaning
(linguistics) A compound word.
Example Sentences
The prototypical Sino-Japanese word is a binom, that is, a word written with two kanji, each kanji representing a Sino-Japanese morph. It is not difficult to find examples of rendaku affecting Sino-Japanese binoms, and a few are listed in (23).
It a meaning is expressed in a particular language like English with the help of a binom, newspaper, and in another particular language like German by a mononom Zeitung, the heteronomic morphology is usually more voluminous (9 phonograms against 7).
Where you would expect to hear AN na N you may instead find, especially in written Japanese, AN no N. The latter, somewhat stiffer, version appears to enjoy particular favor when the AN is a binom of Chinese origin modifying another Chinese binom and the two words are either optionally combinable into a compound noun (by dropping the copula nó/ná together with its juncture and applying the proper accentuation) or look as if they might easily so combine.
Word Forms
- binoms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include binome, binominal, binomen, binoid, bimorpheme, biconsonantal.
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