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eme

[eem]
–noun Chiefly Scot.
1. friend.
2. uncle.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME eem(e), OE ēam; c. D oom, G (arch.) Ohm, Oheim; akin to uncle

-eme

a suffix used principally in linguistics to form nouns with the sense “significant contrastive unit,” at the level of language specified by the stem: morpheme; tagmeme.

Origin:
extracted from phoneme
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