Mononom
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mononom is a noun meaning (linguistics) A word composed of a single stem that cannot be broken down into constituent morphs.
Meaning
(linguistics) A word composed of a single stem that cannot be broken down into constituent morphs.
More Meanings
- Synonym of mononym.
Example Sentences
The first of these are compounds where E1 is a Sino-Japanese mononom and E2 is suru.
Sino-Japanese mononoms are all short, since all Sino-Japanese morphs are one or two moras.
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 phongrams against 7).
Word Forms
- mononoms
Synonyms for mononom
Depending on context, synonyms include mononym.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include monosemant, monorheme, monosyllabic, monomorph, hypermonosyllable, monoplast.
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