Morpheme vs. Allomorph

Morphemenoun

(linguistic morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".

Morphemenoun

The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the plural form.

Morphemenoun

minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

Morpheme

A morpheme is the smallest meaningful lexical item in a language. A morpheme is not necessarily the same as a word.

Allomorphnoun

(chemistry) Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.

Allomorphnoun

(linguistics) Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.

Allomorphnoun

Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; - as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite.

Allomorphnoun

any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound;

Allomorphnoun

a variant phonological representation of a morpheme;

Allomorph

In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant phonetic form of a morpheme, or, a unit of meaning that varies in sound and spelling without changing the meaning. The term allomorph describes the realization of phonological variations for a specific morpheme.