allograph

Definition: Glyphs that are members of the same set of glyphs that represent a particular grapheme.
Example: The f in friend and the gh in cough are two of the allographs in the set of glyphs that constitute the grapheme <f>
Etymology: The word derives from the Greek allos, other + graphos, writing
OED: The word`s first OED citation is from 1951: "We now have allomorph and morpheme, alloseme and sememe, allograph and grapheme."
(R. A. Hall Jun. in Archivum Linguisticum III. 117)



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