different between eme vs xeme

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

Etymology

See Xema, taxonomic genus.

Noun

xeme (plural xemes)

1. Sabine's gull (Xema sabini)