different between eme vs eke

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ?am (“uncle”). See eam.

Noun

eme (plural emes)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle.
2. (Scotland) Friend.

Related terms

• eam

Anagrams

• Mee, eem, mee

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Gascon hemna (“woman”), from Old Occitan femna (“woman”), itself from Latin f?mina (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /e.me/

Etymology 1

Noun

eme anim

1. female

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

eme inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Declension

See also

• (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

Further reading

• “eme” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “eme” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Hungarian

Etymology

em (variation of íme) +? e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m?]
• Hyphenation: eme
• Rhymes: -m?

Pronoun

eme

1. (archaic, poetic) this

Determiner

eme (demonstrative)

1. (archaic, poetic) this
   • 1846, Pet?fi Sándor, Egy gondolat bánt engemet...

     És a zászlókon eme szent jelszóval: - (And on the flags with this holy word:)

     „Világszabadság!” - (World freedom!)

Usage notes

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

Use eme before words beginning with consonants.Use emez before words beginning with vowels (e.g. emez esetben, emez alkalommal).

Synonyms

• e
• ezen

Derived terms

• mindeme

Further reading

• eme in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Back-formation from emoglobina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.me/
• Rhymes: -?me
• Hyphenation: è?me

Noun

eme m (plural emi)

1. (biochemistry) heme

Latin

Verb

eme

1. second-person singular present active imperative of em?

Nauruan

Etymology

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

Noun

eme

1. eye

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese eme.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e.mj/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /??.m?/
• Hyphenation: e?me

Noun

eme m (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:eme.

Scots

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Middle English eem, from Old English ?am, from Proto-Germanic *awahaimaz (“maternal uncle”), related to Latin avus (“grandfather”). Cognate with Dutch Dutch oom, German German Ohm, German Oheim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [im]

Noun

eme (plural emes)

1. maternal uncle
2. friend

Synonyms

• (maternal uncle): mither-brither

Related terms

• uncle (“paternal uncle”)

Further reading

• “eme” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Spanish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eme/, [?e.me]

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Etymology 2

From mierda (“shit”).

Noun

eme f (plural emes)

1. Euphemistic form of mierda.

Further reading

• “eme” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tacana

Noun

eme

1. hand

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?k, IPA^(key): /i?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ik/
• Rhymes: -i?k
• Homophone: eek

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English eke, eche (“addition, increase; enhancement; additional piece of land”), from Old English ?aca (“addition, increase; supplement”), from Proto-Germanic *aukô (“addition, increase”), from *aukan? (“to grow, increase”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”). The English noun is cognate with Old Frisian ?ka (“addition, increase; bonus”), Old Norse auki (“growth, increase, proliferation”).

The verb is derived partly:

• from the noun; and
• from Middle English eken (“to increase; to enlarge, expand, extend; to lengthen; to add to, amplify; to improve; to stimulate; to advance; to exalt; to intensify; to aggravate, make worse; to prosper, succeed”) [and other forms], from three distinct verbs (1) Old English ?can, ?can, ?e?an, ?can (“(West Saxon) to increase; to accomplish”), (2) ?acan (“to be enlarged or increased”), and (3) ?acian, all from Proto-Germanic *aukan? (“to grow, increase”); see further above.

The English verb is cognate with Latin auge? (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread; to lengthen; to exaggerate; to enrich; to honour; (figuratively) to exalt, praise”), Old English ?ac (“also”), Old Norse auka (“to augment, increase; to add; to exceed, surpass”) (Danish øge (“to enhance; to increase”), Icelandic auka (“to augment, increase”), Norwegian Bokmål øke (“to increase”), Norwegian Nynorsk auka (“to increase”), Swedish öka (“to increase”)).

Noun

eke (plural ekes)

1. (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) An addition.
2. (beekeeping, archaic) A small stand on which a beehive is placed.
3. (beekeeping) A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space: see [1]

Derived terms

• ekeing (noun)

Translations

Verb

eke (third-person singular simple present ekes, present participle eking or ekeing, simple past and past participle eked)

1. (transitive) Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• eke out

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ek, eek, eke (“also”) [and other forms], from Old English ?ac, ?c, ?c (“also”), from Proto-Germanic *auk (“also, too; furthermore, in addition”), then either:

• from Proto-Indo-European *h?ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”); or
• from Pre-Germanic *h?ew (“away from, off; again”) + *g(?)e (postpositional intensifying particle meaning ‘at any rate, indeed, in fact’)

The English word is cognate with Gothic ???????????? (auk, “also; for, because; but also”), Old Frisian âk, Old High German ouh (“also, as well, too”) (Middle High German ouch, modern German auch (“also, as well, too”)), Old Norse auk (“also; and”) (Danish og (“and”), Swedish och (“and”), ock (“(dated) also, as well as, too”)), Old Saxon ôk (Dutch ook (“also, too; moreover; either”)), Saterland Frisian ook, uk (“also, too”), West Frisian ek (“also, too”).

Adverb

eke (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Also; in addition to.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Eek, Kee, eek, kee

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare the Turkish verb form ek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??k?]
• Hyphenation: eke
• Rhymes: -k?

Noun

eke (plural ekék)

1. plough (UK), plow (US)

Declension

Derived terms

• ekecsont

References

Indonesian

Etymology

From informal Dutch ikke (standard Dutch ik), from Middle Dutch ic, from Old Dutch ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *é?h?. Compare to Afrikaans ek. Doublet of ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??k?]
• Hyphenation: èkê

Pronoun

eke

1. (colloquial, dated) I: The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.

   Synonyms: aku, saya, gua, gue

Maori

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?eke/

Verb

eke

1. to embark

Pali

Numeral

eke

1. inflection of eka (“one”):
   1. masculine nominative/accusative/vocative plural
   2. feminine vocative singular

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish, from ek (“oak”).

Noun

eke n

1. (uncountable) wood of oak

Declension

Turkish

Noun

eke

1. dative singular of ek

Volapük

Pronoun

eke

1. dative singular of ek

Zazaki

Conjunction

eke

1. if