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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -eme suffix forming nouns - indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language: morpheme, phoneme
Etymology: 20th Century: via French, abstracted from phoneme eme (ēm),USA pronunciation n. [Chiefly Scot.]- Scottish Termsfriend.
- Scottish Termsuncle.
- bef. 1000; Middle English eem(e), Old English ēam; cognate with Dutch oom, German (arch.) Ohm, Oheim; akin to uncle
- 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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