morphophonemic: pertaining to the alternation or change of one phoneme to another in a particular environment. For example, the change of the phoneme /k/ to /s/ before front vowels, which can be seen in the words "electric" and "electric-ity", is morphophonemic. [Spanish: morfofonémico]

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