-me

See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"

French

Suffix

-^me (adjective-forming suffix, plural -^mes)

abbreviation of -ième when an ordinal number is written with Arabic or Roman numerals
dixième → X^me

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. ^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mɛ]

Suffix

-me

(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

Hungarian nouns suffixed with -me

érme

szőrme

References

^ -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

Rōmaji transcription of め

Latvian

Alternative forms

-ma
-sme

Suffix

-me

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

Latvian terms suffixed with -me

drosme

valgme

Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [-mɛ]

Etymology 1

Classifier

-me

Classifier with an uncertain meaning.

Derived terms

Murui Huitoto terms suffixed with -me

jobaime

ɨme

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Classifier

-me

Repeater of ɨme

Derived terms

Murui Huitoto terms suffixed with -me

jobaime

ɨme

Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl -meh, Morelos Nahuatl -mej.

Suffix

-me

Used to form the plural of nouns.

Tocharian B

Pronoun

-me

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

Turkish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/

Suffix

preceding vowel
a / ı / o / u	e / i / ö / ü
-ma	-me

-me

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈme/

Suffix

preceding vowel
a / ı / o / u	e / i / ö / ü
-ma	-me

-me

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

IPA^(key): [-me]

Suffix

-me

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^[1], Lyon, pages 145–146

[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.)

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