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The smallest scrap of sound that still means something — language's indivisible atom.
means The tiniest meaningful unit in a language, like 'cat,' 're-,' or the plural '-s.'
from From Greek morphe, shape — coined on the model of phoneme, the sound atom, by linguists hungry to slice meaning down to bedrock.
Can't divideBreak one and meaning evaporates instantly.
Some are bound'-ness' can't survive alone in the wild.
Hidden pluralsThe '-s' in cats is its own morpheme.