chroneme

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromφώνημα“sound”
2. Ancient Greek · derived fromχρόνος
3. English todaychroneme

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, chrono- + -eme.

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