eme

1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forEmerillon.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Emerillon terms

• eam
• eem(dialectal)
• eame
• neam
• neame
• neme

FromMiddle Englishéam,eom,em,eme(“uncle”), fromOld Englishēam(“uncle”). Seeeam.

eme (pluralemes)

1. (obsolete outsideScotland) Anuncle.
   • 1485,Sir Thomas Malory, “quintum”, inLe Morte Darthur, book VIII:

     Soo this yonge syre Trystram rode vnto hiseme kynge Marke of Cornewayle / ¶ And whanne he came there / he herd say that ther wold no knyghte fyghte with syre Marhaus / Thenne yede sir Tristram vnto hiseme and sayd / syre yf ye wylle gyue me thordre of knyghthode / I wille doo bataille with syr Marhaus

     So this young knight, Tristan, rode unto hisuncle, king Mark of Cornwall / ¶ And when he came thither / he heard say that no knight there would fight Sir Marhaus / Then went Sir Tristan unto hisuncle and said / Sire, if ye give me the order of knighthood / I shall battle Sir Marhaus

   • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London:[…] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:

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

     Whilst they were young, Cassibalain, theiruncle, / was chosen by the people in their stead[…]

2. (Scotland)Friend.

• eam

• → Manx:naim

• Mee,eem,mee

• IPA^(key):/eme/,[e̞.me̞]

Borrowed fromGasconhemna(“woman”), fromOld Occitanfemna(“woman”), itself fromLatinfēmina(“woman”).^[1]

eme anim

1. female

eme inan

1. The name of theLatin-script letterM/m.

• (Latin-script letter names)a,be,ze,de,e,efe,ge,hatxe,i,jota,ka,ele,eme,ene,eñe,o,pe,ku,erre,ese,te,u,uve,uve bikoitz,ixa,i greko,zeta

• “eme”, inEuskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque),Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “eme”, inOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary],Euskaltzaindia,1987–2005

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic)[ˈe.mə]
• IPA^(key):(Valencia)[ˈe.me]

eme f (pluralemes)

1. (Valencia)Alternative form ofema

• “eme” inDiccionari normatiu valencià,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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eme m (pluralemes)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterM/m.

Fromem- +‎e(“this”)^[1]

• IPA^(key):[ˈɛmɛ]
• Hyphenation:eme
• Rhymes:-mɛ

eme

1. (archaic,poetic)this

eme

1. (archaic,poetic)Alternative form ofemezbefore consonants:this

   Coordinate term:ama

   • 1846,Sándor Petőfi, translated byGeorge Szirtes,Egy gondolat bánt engemet‎^[1]:

     És a zászlókoneme szent jelszóval: / „Világszabadság!”

     One undefiled word fluttering overhead, / That word Liberty
     (literally) And on the flags withthis holy word: / “World freedom!”

A rarer substitute ofez, but unlike the latter,eme does not take the case of the noun it is attached to, and no definite article is used after it:

ezen a helyen ― eme helyen ―at this place

ebben a házban ― eme házban ―in this house

Useeme before words beginning with consonants.
Useemez before words beginning with vowels (e.g.emez esetben(“in this case”),emez alkalommal(“on this occasion”)).

• eme inGéza Bárczi,László Országh,et al., editors,A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.Fifth ed., 1992:→ISBN.
• eme, redirecting in this sense toemez inNóra Ittzés, editor,A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031(work in progress; publisheda–ez as of 2024).

Back-formation fromemoglobina.

• IPA^(key):/ˈɛ.me/
• Rhymes:-ɛme
• Hyphenation:è‧me

eme m (pluralemi)

1. (biochemistry)heme

eme

1. second-personsingularpresentactiveimperative ofemō

eme

1. forms thenegativeimperative

   Ejae'oeme.

   Don't cry.

eme

1. Alternative form ofem

From Pre-Nauruan*mata, fromProto-Micronesian*mata, fromProto-Oceanic*mata, fromProto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian*mata, fromProto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian*mata, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*mata, fromProto-Austronesian*mata.

eme

1. eye

FromOld Galician-Portugueseeme.

• Hyphenation:e‧me

eme m (pluralemes)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterM/m.

   Synonym:mê

For quotations using this term, seeCitations:eme.

• eam
• eame
• eem
• eeme
• eime
• emm
• emme
• eyme

FromMiddle Englisheem, fromOld Englishēam, fromProto-Germanic*awahaimaz(“maternal uncle”), related to Latinavus(“grandfather”). Cognate with DutchDutchoom, GermanGermanOhm,GermanOheim.

• IPA^(key):[im]

eme (pluralemes)

1. maternal uncle
2. friend

• (maternal uncle):mither-brither

• uncle(“paternal uncle”)

• “eme”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC.

• IPA^(key):/ˈeme/[ˈe.me]

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• Rhymes:-eme
• Syllabification:e‧me

eme f (pluralemes)

1. The name of theLatin-script letterM/m.

Frommierda(“shit”).

eme f (pluralemes)

1. Euphemistic form ofmierda.

   Esa película es unaeme.

   That movie isshit.

• “eme”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

eme

1. Romanization of𒅴(eme)

eme

1. hand

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈʔeme/[ˈʔɛː.mɛ]
• Rhymes:-eme
• Syllabification:e‧me

Borrowed fromSpanisheme, the Spanish name of the letterM/m.

eme (Baybayin spellingᜁᜋᜒ)

1. (historical)the name of theLatin-script letterM/m, in theAbecedario

   Synonyms:(in the Filipino alphabet)em,(in the Abakada alphabet)ma

Possibly fromSpanisheme(“M”), euphemism ofmierda(“shit; crap”) by taking its first letter. Comparekiyeme. See alsolamyerda,lakwatsa.

eme (Baybayin spellingᜁᜋᜒ)(women's speech,gayslang)

1. nonsense

   Synonyms:kiyeme,kemerut,echos,kalokohan,sagimuymoy

2. term used for any object whose actual name the speaker does not know or cannot remember:thingamajig;whatchamacallit;thingy;dingus

   Synonyms:ano,kuwan

3. excuses;pretenses

• The word is typically used bywomen, and may soundeffeminate when used bymen.

• ems

• “eme”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
• “EME” inTagalog-English Dictionary, TAGALOG LANG, 2007.
• “eme”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

• mee

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*həmay, fromProto-Austronesian*Səmay.

eme

1. paddy(unmilled rice),rice(plant)

• Warneck, J. (1906).Tobabataksch-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij,p. 65.

Perhaps related toWest Makianme(“he, she, it”).

• IPA^(key):/ˈe.me/

eme (possessive prefixdi)

1. third-person plural pronoun,they,them
2. (polite)third-person singular pronoun,he (him),she (her)

   ifitengeme ―he said tohim

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982)The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics