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eme

1

[ eem ]

noun

Chiefly Scot.

-eme

2
  1. a suffix used principally in linguistics to form nouns with the sense “significant contrastive unit,” at the level of language specified by the stem:

    morpheme; tagmeme.

-eme

suffix forming nouns

  1. linguistics indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language

    phoneme

    morpheme

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of eme1

before 1000; Middle English eem ( e ), Old English ŧ; cognate with Dutch oom, German (arch.) Ohm, Oheim; akin to uncle

Origin of eme2

Extracted from phoneme
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of eme1

C20: via French, abstracted from phoneme

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