Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρόνος ‎(khrónos) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα ‎(phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω ‎(phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή ‎(phōnḗ, “sound”).