lex·eme

(lĕk′sēm′)

The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.

[lex(icon) + -eme.]

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lexeme

(ˈlɛksiːm)

(Linguistics) linguistics a minimal meaningful unit of language, the meaning of which cannot be understood from that of its component morphemes. Take off (in the senses to mimic, to become airborne, etc) is a lexeme, as well as the independent morphemes take and off

[C20: from lex(icon) + -eme]

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lex•eme

(ˈlɛk sim)

n.

a minimal lexical unit in a language, as a word or idiomatic phrase, esp. an abstract form underlying any inflected forms.

[1935–40; lex (ical) or lex (icon) + -eme]

lexeme

A fundamental meaningful unit of a language.

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Noun

lexeme - a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'

language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed

Translations

lexém

leksem

語彙素

leksema

lexeem

lexem

лексема

lexéma

lexem

lexeme

[ˈleksiːm] N → lexema m

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Inflected word-forms are considered to be more informative than sub-word units about the inflexional patterns exhibited by a lexeme. Informative patterns exist only between two or more related forms (whether they belong to the lexeme's paradigm, its wider morphological family or to the lexical neigh-bourhood).

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(11) Not that every form or lexeme in the medieval manuscripts should be naively accepted as ancient, but the point remains.

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This was automated for all words or stems where only one possible apposite lexeme would be converted.

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OFTEN our officials use the lexeme of 'successful' after every visit of the head of government or state to a foreign country yet the first foreign visit paid by Prime Minister Imran Khan to Saudi Arabia was highly successful in terms of deepening the economic partnership between the two countries.

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The first few simple (person, tree) and compound (wood, forest) images seem straightforward enough, but very soon image and lexeme correspond less and the pictures are more a mnemonic for the embedded character.

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The key feature of the morphosemantic field is that each derived form is related to an etymon (the etymologically basic lexeme, root or base lexeme) in a different way.

The concept of 'taste' in formation of Croatian and Turkish lexicon: A contrastive analysis/Pojam 'okus' u izgradnji hrvatskoga i turskoga leksika--kontrastivna analiza