-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

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