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Apr. 12th, 2007 08:01 pm
arethinn: glowing green spiral (curious (redhaired elf))
Is there a term for an utterance that isn't a word, but is more than one syllable? For example, lennith. This is not a word (not in English anyway), but it's not a phoneme or syllable either (it's two syllables, obviously). If we were discussing meaning I might call it an "element" ("in the word kavelennith, the element lennith means..."), but I am referring to it as a piece of sound. Is there a specific term for that?

(unrelated p.s. Apparently I recently passed 2000 entries as this one seems to be #2093. Huh. And to my even greater surprise, my first post also happened to be on April 12th - in 2002, that is.)

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