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

Example sentences from the Web for eme

Many former Eme stated that is why they left after feeling disillusioned.
The Mexican Mafia Is the Daddy of All Street Gangs|Seth Ferranti|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the swift way that only natives know about, Eme Ete received news of it.
The White Queen of Okoyong|W.P. Livingstone
Many weights of lead and marble were found here; one with the inscription, "Eme et habebis" (Buy and you shall have), also scales.
Museum of Antiquity|L. W. Yaggy
Eme Ete came and knelt before her brother and begged him to set free one of them, a weak and timid creature, and this was done.
The White Queen of Okoyong|W.P. Livingstone

Above the door of a house, once inhabited by a surgeon, occurs the following laconic intimation:—“Eme et habebis.”
The History of Signboards|Jacob Larwood
But there was one who was kind to her, Eme Ete, a sister of the chief, who had a sad story.
The White Queen of Okoyong|W.P. Livingstone

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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