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-eme

/-iːm/ · suffix

Meaning

  1. Indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure.

Etymology / origin

Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).

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