-emesuffix

Stress placement does not follow a consistent pattern in words with this suffix, but in most cases primary stress does not fall on the suffix itself.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French -ème.

Etymology: < French -ème (in e.g. phonème phoneme n.) < ancient Greek -ημα (in e.g. ϕώνημα ) < -η- , the stem of the parent word (usually a verb) + -μα , suffix forming nouns (see -oma comb. form).Compare German -em.

Linguistics.

The termination of many names of significant or distinctive units of structure of some kind in the lexicon, grammar, and phonology of languages, e.g. grapheme, lexeme, morpheme, phoneme, sememe, toneme.

ΚΠ

1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. iii. 79 A by-product of Linguistic Analysis..has been the sudden burgeoning of the -eme family.

1962 H. A. Gleason in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 98 Some kind of -emes;..no satisfactory term is at hand, though ‘sememe’ has been used.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	-eme
释义	-emesuffix Stress placement does not follow a consistent pattern in words with this suffix, but in most cases primary stress does not fall on the suffix itself. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French -ème. Etymology: < French -ème (in e.g. phonème phoneme n.) < ancient Greek -ημα (in e.g. ϕώνημα ) < -η- , the stem of the parent word (usually a verb) + -μα , suffix forming nouns (see -oma comb. form).Compare German -em. Linguistics. The termination of many names of significant or distinctive units of structure of some kind in the lexicon, grammar, and phonology of languages, e.g. grapheme, lexeme, morpheme, phoneme, sememe, toneme. ΚΠ 1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. iii. 79 A by-product of Linguistic Analysis..has been the sudden burgeoning of the -eme family. 1962 H. A. Gleason in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 98 Some kind of -emes;..no satisfactory term is at hand, though ‘sememe’ has been used. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < suffix1953
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