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morpheme

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morpheme

Summary

morpheme ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (659 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • morpheme is a type of moneme[2].
  • morpheme is a type of emic unit[3].
  • morpheme is a type of form[4].
  • morpheme is a type of morphological unit[5].
  • morpheme is part of lexeme[6].
  • morpheme's said to be the same as is recorded as moneme[7].
  • morpheme's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Morphemes[8].
  • morpheme's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • morpheme's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[10].
  • morpheme's topic has template is recorded as Q26143207[11].
  • morpheme's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/Morpheme[12].
  • morpheme's different from is recorded as phoneme[13].
  • morpheme's different from is recorded as grapheme[14].
  • morpheme's different from is recorded as lexeme[15].
  • morpheme's studied by is recorded as morphology[16].
  • morpheme's exact match is recorded as http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-133073378[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include moneme[2], emic unit[3], form[4], and morphological unit[5].

Use and Application

morpheme is part of lexeme[6].

Why It Matters

morpheme ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (659 views/month).[1] morpheme has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] morpheme is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . merriam-webster.com. merriam-webster.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_morpheme_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{morpheme}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/morpheme}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → phoneme, grapheme, lexeme
    Topic has template → Q26143207
    Subclass of → moneme, emic unit, form +1
    Carries thoroughfare → Q183046
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 19208, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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