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How do you say “cat” 🐈 in Spanish?
Origin of eme
before 1000; Middle English eem(e), Old English ēam; cognate with Dutch oom,German (arch.) Ohm, Oheim; akin to uncle
Definition for eme (2 of 2)
-eme
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.
Origin of -eme
Extracted from phoneme
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British Dictionary definitions for eme
-eme
suffix forming nouns
linguistics indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a languagemorpheme; phoneme
Word Origin for -eme
C20: via French, abstracted from phoneme
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