mononom

A word composed of a single stem that cannot be broken down into constituent morphs.

It a meaning is expressed in a particular language like English with the help of a binom, newspaper, and in another particular language like German by a mononom Zeitung, the heteronomic morphology is usually more voluminous (9 phongrams against 7).

Sino-Japanese mononoms are all short, since all Sino-Japanese morphs are one or two moras.

Synonym of mononym.

"I was dining one day with Burns," said Campbell, "who, like Dr. Johnson and other celebrities, had his Bozzy worshipper, a friend who was always in his company. I have forgotten his name. Burns left the room for a moment, and passing the bottle to his friend, I proposed to drink the health of Mr. Burns. He gave me a look of annihilation. 'Sir,' said he, you will always be known as Mr. Campbell, but posterity will talk of Burns!'" Such an anecdote makes one look around in alarm, to see if there are not some unrecognised mononoms in our time, whom we are profaning, unaware, with our Mister-y.