Eam vs Ema - What's the difference?
eam | ema |
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Uncle.
*2011 , Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622 :
A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
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As a noun eam
is (dialectal|or|obsolete) uncle.As an initialism ema is
(travel industry) excess mileage allowance.eam
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* (l) * (l) (Scottish)Noun
(en noun)- James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam , Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.
