"eme" meaning in English

See eme in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: emes [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English éam, eom, em, eme (“uncle”), from Old English ēam (“uncle”). See eam. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|éam}} Middle English éam, {{m|enm|eom}} eom, {{m|enm|em}} em, {{m|enm|eme||uncle}} eme (“uncle”), {{inh|en|ang|ēam||uncle}} Old English ēam (“uncle”), {{m|en|eam}} eam Head templates: {{en-noun}} eme (plural emes)
  1. (obsolete outside Scotland) An uncle. Categories (topical): Male family members
    Sense id: en-eme-en-noun-0e3HYm1c Disambiguation of Male family members: 51 49 Categories (other): Scottish English
  2. (Scotland) Friend. Tags: Scotland Categories (topical): Male family members
    Sense id: en-eme-en-noun-py9LLnzE Disambiguation of Male family members: 51 49 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, West Makian entries with incorrect language header, West Makian links with redundant wikilinks, West Makian pronouns Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 30 70 Disambiguation of West Makian entries with incorrect language header: 0 2 6 2 9 7 2 0 9 4 5 4 5 7 6 0 0 3 5 5 0 5 3 5 5 1 1 Disambiguation of West Makian links with redundant wikilinks: 0 3 5 3 10 6 2 0 8 4 4 3 5 6 10 0 0 4 4 5 0 4 3 4 4 1 1 Disambiguation of West Makian pronouns: 1 3 5 3 13 3 4 0 7 2 2 2 3 3 5 1 1 3 4 3 1 5 4 4 4 8 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: eam, eem [dialectal], eame, neam, neame, neme Related terms: eam

Inflected forms

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