| eme |
| Definition: The linguist's favourite suffix when coining names for atomic units of lexical, grammatical, and phonological structure. |
| Example: grapheme, lexeme, morpheme, phoneme, sememe, and toneme. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: The suffix's first OED citation is from 1953: "A by-product of Linguistic Analysis … has been the sudden burgeoning of the -eme family." (W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. iii. 79 ) |