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  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

See Examples For:

eme -eme

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 Alexander Hislop

Remember St. Paul's words: he dunamis en astheneia teleitai. edista oun mallon kauchesomai en tais astheneiais, hina episkenose ep eme he dunamis tou Christou; hotan gar artheno, tote dunatos eimi.

From Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

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 Buckingham Smith

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 Daniel Garrison Brinton

So this young Sir Tristram rode unto his eme, King Mark of Cornwall.

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

The term meme originates from the Greek root mim, meaning “mime” or “mimic,” and the English suffix -eme.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021