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eme

1 American  
[eem] / im /

noun

Chiefly Scot.

  1. friend.

  2. uncle.

-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.
-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

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