— morphemic , adj. — morphemically , adv.
/mawr"feem/ , n. Ling.
any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Cf. allomorph (def. 2), morph (def. 1).
[ 1895-1900; morphème; see MORPH-, -EME ]