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-eme definition

-eme (ēm)

Linguis. a distinctive unit of language structure at a (specified) level of analysis, generally characterized as a class consisting of all the variant forms of the given unit the grapheme <w> consists of all the possible written forms of the letter w

Etymology: Fr -ème, unit, sound < phonème, phoneme

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