morphophoneme
noun
mor·pho·phoneme
| \ ¦mȯ(r)fō+\
Definition of morphophoneme
: a class of phonemes that belong to the same morpheme (as the \-s, -z, -ə̇z\ plural suffix of kits, kids, kisses; \f, v\ in knife, knives)
also
: an arbitrarily selected member of such a class as its representative in grammatical description (as the plural suffix -s, or the f in \nīf\)
group together into one morphophoneme the phonemes which replace each other in corresponding parts of the various members of a morpheme — Z. S. Harris