-me

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French

Suffix

-me (plural -mes)

  1. abbreviation of -ième when an ordinal number is written with Arabic or Roman numerals
    dixièmeXme

Hungarian

Etymology

Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. The neologists formed new words with it after artificially deducing it from words ending in -ma/-me.

Pronunciation

Suffix

-me

  1. (noun-forming suffix, rare) Added to a word to form a noun. No longer productive.
    ér (to be worth something) + ‎-me → ‎érme (coin)

Usage notes

  • (noun-forming suffix) Variants:
    -ma is added to back-vowel words
    -me is added to front-vowel words

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative -me -mék
accusative -mét -méket
dative -mének -méknek
instrumental -mével -mékkel
causal-final -méért -mékért
translative -mévé -mékké
terminative -méig -mékig
essive-formal -meként -mékként
essive-modal -méül -mékül
inessive -mében -mékben
superessive -mén -méken
adessive -ménél -méknél
illative -mébe -mékbe
sublative -mére -mékre
allative -méhez -mékhez
elative -méből -mékből
delative -méről -mékről
ablative -métől -méktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
-méé -méké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
-mééi -mékéi
Possessive forms of -me
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. -mém -méim
2nd person sing. -méd -méid
3rd person sing. -méje -méi
1st person plural -ménk -méink
2nd person plural -métek -méitek
3rd person plural -méjük -méik

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ -me in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Japanese

Romanization

-me

  1. Rōmaji transcription of

Latvian

Alternative forms

Suffix

-me

  1. Added to adjectives (sometimes to nouns) to form abstract nouns, especially those referring to the state or property that corresponds to the original adjective (like, e.g., Eng. -ity).

Derived terms

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Classifier

-me

  1. Classifier with an uncertain meaning.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Classifier

-me

  1. Repeater of ɨme
Derived terms

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl -meh, Morelos Nahuatl -mej.

Suffix

-me

  1. Used to form the plural of nouns.

Tocharian B

Pronoun

-me

  1. enclitic pronoun referring to first, second, or third persons plural

Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـمه, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-me.

Pronunciation

Suffix

preceding vowel
A / I / O / U E / İ / Ö / Ü
-ma -me

-me

  1. negates meaning of the verb. not, don't
    Bana ödevini yapmayı unuttuğunu söyleme!
    Don't tell me that you forgot to do your homework!
See also

Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ـمه, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *-me.

Pronunciation

Suffix

preceding vowel
A / I / O / U E / İ / Ö / Ü
-ma -me

-me

  1. forms irrealis verbal nouns, or non-subject participles.
    Coordinate term: -dik (realis)
    Okuldan sonra eczaneye gitmeyi unuttum.
    I forgot to go to the pharmacy after school (i.e. going to the pharmacy did not happen).
Derived terms

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

Suffix

-me

  1. Serves as an attributivizer to allow verbs nominalized with -tojo to function as a predicate in a subordinate clause of purpose with the meaning ‘in order to X’, ‘for X-ing’.
    Synonym: -je

Usage notes

This suffix causes syllable reduction so that -tojo becomes -to' and the combined suffix is -to'me. In the Caura River (Ye’kwana) dialect studied by Cáceres this suffix was only ever found in use in combination with -tojo.

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-me”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 145–146