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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

relation go
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

part, portion, component, constituent, component part go
something determined in relation to something that includes it

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

morpheme
minimal meaningful language unit

noun.communication

5 Subcategories

allomorph go
a variant phonological representation of a morpheme
free morpheme, free form go
a morpheme that can occur alone
bound morpheme, bound form go
a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction
classifier go
a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
termination, ending go
the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)