# glosseme

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.

## Etymology
From gloss- + -eme, coined by Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall in the 1930s.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
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