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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-eme
  1. indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language: morpheme, phoneme
Etymology: 20th Century: via French, abstracted from phoneme
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
eme  (ēm),USA pronunciation n. [Chiefly Scot.]
  1. Scottish Termsfriend.
  2. Scottish Termsuncle.
  • bef. 1000; Middle English eem(e), Old English ēam; cognate with Dutch oom, German (arch.) Ohm, Oheim; akin to uncle

-eme, 
  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.
  • extracted from phoneme

'-eme' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
allocher - chereme - eme - emesis - emu - glosseme - grapheme - lexeme - meristem - morpheme - morphophonemic - phonesthemic - semanteme - sememe - tagmeme - taxeme - toneme

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