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• eme
  eme

  noun

  friend.
• -eme
  -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.

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

The word "eme" signifies uncle, and the saying—its claims as a proverb are small enough—means that a person may have many relations but very few friends among them.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

Eiae se te touton upsou chronon patein, eme te tossade nikaphorois omilein, prophanton sophian kath' El- lanas eonta panta.—OLYMP.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Ar. eme or uime, the mouth of a river, uimelian, to be new.

From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison

‘In Banda and other islands,’ says Purchas, ‘the bird called emia or eme is admirable.’

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

I desire that you may live here, Nee eme iuide cáteo naquém, in which cáteo is an active perfect participle, and the verb naquém, I desire, ever requires this construction.

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