glosseme
noun
glos·seme
ˈgläˌsēm,
ˈglȯˌ-
plural -s
: the smallest unit (as a word, a stem, a grammatical element, an intonation, or an order of words) that signals a meaning in a language
glossemic
adjective
(ˈ)⸗¦sēmik
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