eme

eme

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Emerillon.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Emerillon terms

• eam
• eem (dialectal)
• eame
• neam
• neame
• neme

From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ēam (“uncle”). See eam.

eme (plural emes)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “quintum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     Soo this yonge syre Trystram rode vnto his eme kynge Marke of Cornewayle / ¶ And whanne he came there / he herd say that ther wold no knyghte fyghte with syre Marhaus / Thenne yede sir Tristram vnto his eme and sayd / syre yf ye wylle gyue me thordre of knyghthode / I wille doo bataille with syr Marhaus

     So this young knight, Tristan, rode unto his uncle, king Mark of Cornwall / ¶ And when he came thither / he heard say that no knight there would fight Sir Marhaus / Then went Sir Tristan unto his uncle and said / Sire, if ye give me the order of knighthood / I shall battle Sir Marhaus

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Whilst they were young, Cassibalane their Eme / Was by the people chosen in their sted […]

     Whilst they were young, Cassibalain, their uncle, / was chosen by the people in their stead […]

2. (Scotland) Friend.

• eam

• → Manx: naim

• Mee, eem, mee

• IPA^(key): /eme/, [e̞.me̞]

Borrowed from Gascon hemna (“woman”), from Old Occitan femna (“woman”), itself from Latin fēmina (“woman”).^[1]

eme anim

1. female

eme inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

• “eme”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “eme”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.me]

eme f (plural emes)

1. (Valencia) alternative form of ema

• “eme” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

From em- +‎ e (“this”)^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmɛ]
• Hyphenation: eme
• Rhymes: -mɛ

eme

1. (archaic, poetic) this

eme

1. (archaic, poetic) alternative form of emez before consonants: this

   Coordinate term: ama

   • 1846, Sándor Petőfi, translated by George Szirtes, Egy gondolat bánt engemet‎^[1]:

     És a zászlókon eme szent jelszóval: / „Világszabadság!”

     One undefiled word fluttering overhead, / That word Liberty
     (literally) And on the flags with this holy word: / “World freedom!”

A rarer substitute of ez, but unlike the latter, eme does not take the case of the noun it is attached to, and no definite article is used after it:

ezen a helyen ― eme helyen ― at this place

ebben a házban ― eme házban ― in this house

Use eme before words beginning with consonants.
Use emez before words beginning with vowels (e.g. emez esetben (“in this case”), emez alkalommal (“on this occasion”)).

• eme in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• eme, redirecting in this sense to emez in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Back-formation from emoglobina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.me/
• Rhymes: -ɛme
• Hyphenation: è‧me

eme m (plural emi)

1. (biochemistry) heme

eme

1. second-person singular present active imperative of emō

eme

1. forms the negative imperative

   Ejae'o eme.

   Don't cry.

eme

1. alternative form of em

From Pre-Nauruan *mata, from Proto-Micronesian *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *mata.

eme

1. eye

From Old Galician-Portuguese eme.

• Hyphenation: e‧me

eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

   Synonym: mê

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; á, bê, cê, dê, é / ê, efe / fê, gê / guê, agá, i, jota / ji, cá / capa, ele / lê, eme / mê, ene / nê, ó / ô, pê, quê, erre / rê, esse, tê, u, vê, dáblio / dâblio / duplo vê, xis, ípsilon / i grego, zê

• eam
• eame
• eem
• eeme
• eime
• emm
• emme
• eyme

From Middle English eem, from Old English ēam, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), related to Latin avus (“grandfather”). Cognate with Dutch Dutch oom, German German Ohm, German Oheim.

• IPA^(key): [im]

eme (plural emes)

1. maternal uncle
2. friend

• (maternal uncle): mither-brither

• uncle (“paternal uncle”)

• “eme”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeme/ [ˈe.me]

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• Rhymes: -eme
• Syllabification: e‧me

eme f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

From mierda (“shit”).

eme f (plural emes)

1. euphemistic form of mierda

   Esa película es una eme.

   That movie is shit.

• “eme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

eme

1. romanization of 𒅴 (eme)

eme

1. hand

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔeme/ [ˈʔɛː.mɛ]
• Rhymes: -eme
• Syllabification: e‧me

Borrowed from Spanish eme, the Spanish name of the letter M / m.

eme (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin-script letter M/m, in the Abecedario

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) em, (in the Abakada alphabet) ma

Possibly from Spanish eme (“M”) (see etymology 1), euphemism of mierda (“shit; crap”) by taking its first letter. Compare kiyeme. See also lamyerda, lakwatsa.

eme (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜒ) (women's speech, gay slang)

1. nonsense

   Synonyms: kiyeme, kemerut, echos, kalokohan, sagimuymoy

2. term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember: thingamajig; whatchamacallit; thingy; dingus

   Synonyms: ano, kuwan

3. excuses; pretenses

• The word is typically used by women, and may sound effeminate when used by men.

• ems

• “eme”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• “EME” in Tagalog-English Dictionary, TAGALOG LANG, 2007.
• “eme”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• mee

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *həmay, from Proto-Austronesian *Səmay.

eme

1. paddy (unmilled rice), rice (plant)

• Warneck, J. (1906). Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij, p. 65.

Perhaps related to West Makian me (“he, she, it”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈe.me/

eme (possessive prefix di)

1. third-person plural pronoun, they, them
2. (polite) third-person singular pronoun, he (him), she (her)

   ifiteng eme ― he said to him

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics