eme

¹ American  

[eem] / im /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

1. friend.

2. uncle.

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-eme ² American  

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.

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-eme British  

suffix

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

   morpheme

   phoneme

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Etymology

Origin of eme¹

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

Origin of -eme²

Extracted from phoneme

Example Sentences

Nee eme hiósguaco naquém, Nee eme hiósguarico naquém.

From Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. by Smith, Buckingham

This eme or emia was doubtless a cassowary—probably that of Ceram.

From Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects by McClymont, James Roxburgh

Alas then, said she unto her daughter, La Beale Isoud, this is the same traitor knight that slew my brother, thine eme.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Then again said the gallant: 'Despota tinyn panagathe, diati sy mi ouk artodotis? horas gar limo analiscomenon eme athlion, ke en to metaxy me ouk eleis oudamos, zetis de par emou ha ou chre.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

C. Qui tecum cupis esse meos ubicumque libellos Et comites longae quaeris habere viae, Hos eme, quos artat brevibus membrana tabellis: 4 Scrinia da magnis, me manus una capit.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund