Eme meaning

A distinctive unit of linguistic structure.

Semanteme.

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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.

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1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.x.

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

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(Scotland) Friend.
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Origin of eme

  • Fr -ème, unit, sound < phonème, phoneme
    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
  • French -ème from phonème phoneme phoneme
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Middle English eam, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ēam (“uncle”). See eam.
    From Wiktionary

Eme Sentence Examples

  • The firing ~ eme ceased on the following day, but the troubles of the granted people were rather increased than assuaged; murders the and robberies were daily committed by the soldiery, pRSh~tI~ the shops were all shut and some of the streets barricaded.

  • See Georges de Blois, Louis de Blois, un Benedictin au XVI eme siecle (Paris, 1875), Eng.

  • de Montalembert's Un Moine au XIX' eme siecle (Paris, 1862 - English translation by F.

  • Bardoux, Pauline de Montmorin, comtesse de Beaumont: Etudes sur la fin du X Viip eme siecle (Paris, 1884), for a defence of Montmorin's policy; F.

  • Christophe, Histoire de la papaute pendant le XIV eme siecle, vol.

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