ˌēm noun suffix
( -s )
Etymology: French -ème thing, unit (in phonème speech sound), from Greek -ēmat-, -ēma (in phōnēmat-, phōnēma utterance), from -ē- (stem vowel of phōnein to sound) + -mat-, -ma (noun suffix) — more at -ment
: significantly distinctive unit of structure of a (specified) kind in a language or dialect
morph eme
ton eme
— compare allo-