-me

-^me (plural -^mes)

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

   dixième → X^me

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]

• IPA^(key): [mɛ]

-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”)

• (noun-forming suffix) Variants:

  -ma is added to back-vowel words

  -me is added to front-vowel words

• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

-me

1. Rōmaji transcription of め

• -ma
• -sme

-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).

• IPA^(key): [-mɛ]

-me

1. Classifier with an uncertain meaning.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

-me

1. Repeater of ɨme

Compare Classical Nahuatl -meh, Morelos Nahuatl -mej.

-me

1. Used to form the plural of nouns.

-me

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

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

• IPA^(key): /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!

• değil

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/

-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).

• IPA^(key): [-me]

-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

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.

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