-me
See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"
French
Suffix
-me (plural -mes)
Hungarian
Etymology
Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The neologists formed new words with it after artificially deducing it from words ending in -ma/-me. [1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɛ]
Suffix
-me
- (noun-forming suffix, rare) Added to a word to form a noun. No longer productive.
Usage notes
- (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
- -ma is added to back-vowel words
- -me is added to front-vowel words
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | -me | -mék |
| accusative | -mét | -méket |
| dative | -mének | -méknek |
| instrumental | -mével | -mékkel |
| causal-final | -méért | -mékért |
| translative | -mévé | -mékké |
| terminative | -méig | -mékig |
| essive-formal | -meként | -mékként |
| essive-modal | -méül | -mékül |
| inessive | -mében | -mékben |
| superessive | -mén | -méken |
| adessive | -ménél | -méknél |
| illative | -mébe | -mékbe |
| sublative | -mére | -mékre |
| allative | -méhez | -mékhez |
| elative | -méből | -mékből |
| delative | -méről | -mékről |
| ablative | -métől | -méktől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
-méé | -méké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
-mééi | -mékéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | -mém | -méim |
| 2nd person sing. | -méd | -méid |
| 3rd person sing. | -méje | -méi |
| 1st person plural | -ménk | -méink |
| 2nd person plural | -métek | -méitek |
| 3rd person plural | -méjük | -méik |
Derived terms
See also
- Appendix:Hungarian suffixes
References
- ^ -me in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Japanese
Romanization
-me
Latvian
Alternative forms
Suffix
-me
- Added to adjectives (sometimes to nouns) to form abstract nouns, especially those referring to the state or property that corresponds to the original adjective (like, e.g., Eng. -ity).
Derived terms
Murui Huitoto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [-mɛ]
Etymology 1
Classifier
-me
- Classifier with an uncertain meaning.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Classifier
-me
- Repeater of ɨme
Derived terms
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Etymology
Compare Classical Nahuatl -meh, Morelos Nahuatl -mej.
Suffix
-me
- Used to form the plural of nouns.
Tocharian B
Pronoun
-me
- enclitic pronoun referring to first, second, or third persons plural
Turkish
Etymology 1
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـمه, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-me.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me/
Suffix
| preceding vowel | |
|---|---|
| a / ı / o / u | e / i / ö / ü |
| -ma | -me |
-me
- negates meaning of the verb. not, don't
- Bana ödevini yapmayı unuttuğunu söyleme!
- Don't tell me that you forgot to do your homework!
See also
Etymology 2
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـمه, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-me.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈme/
Suffix
| preceding vowel | |
|---|---|
| a / ı / o / u | e / i / ö / ü |
| -ma | -me |
-me
- forms irrealis verbal nouns, or non-subject participles.
- Coordinate term: -dik (realis)
- Okuldan sonra eczaneye gitmeyi unuttum.
- I forgot to go to the pharmacy after school (i.e. going to the pharmacy did not happen).
Derived terms
Turkish terms suffixed with -me
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [-me]
Suffix
-me
- Serves as an attributivizer to allow verbs nominalized with -tojo to function as a predicate in a subordinate clause of purpose with the meaning ‘in order to X’, ‘for X-ing’.
- Synonym: -je
Usage notes
This suffix causes syllable reduction so that -tojo becomes -to' and the combined suffix is -to'me. In the Caura River (Ye’kwana) dialect studied by Cáceres this suffix was only ever found in use in combination with -tojo.
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-me”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 145–146