-eme

See also: eme, ɛme, -ème, and ëmë

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

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 (-uytʿ)
Catalan: -ema m
French: -ème (fr) m
Hungarian: -éma
Sicilian: -ima m, -ema m
Spanish: -ema (es) m

Anagrams

Mee, eem, mee

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