Etymology

chereme

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Today it means: A basic unit of a sign language; equivalent to a phoneme. Full definition →

Ancient Greek χείρ
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromχείρ“hand”
  2. English todaychereme

From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + -eme, by analogy with phoneme.

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