-eme

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eme"

English

Etymology

Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-iːm/

Suffix

-eme

1. Indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure.

   ‎phone + ‎-eme → ‎phoneme

   ‎metaphor + ‎-eme → ‎metaphoreme

   ‎prosody + ‎-eme → ‎prosodeme

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -eme

Translations

linguistic base unit

• Armenian: -ույթ (-uytʻ)
• Catalan: -ema (ca) m
• French: -ème (fr) m
• Galician: -ema m
• Hungarian: -éma
• Portuguese: -ema m
• Russian: -е́ма f (-éma)
• Sicilian: -ima m, -ema m
• Spanish: -ema (es) m

Anagrams

• Mee, eem, mee