Etymology of -eme

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Unnumbered source etymology

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suffix

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

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́ Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek φωνέω (phōnéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma)der. English phonemeclip. English -eme Extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Thus from a hypothetical suffix -ημα (-ēma), formed from -έω (-éō) + -μα (-ma).

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Derivation mentionφώνημαgrc · sound
Word-formation component-έωgrc
Word-formation component-μαgrc

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