Noun: gome
Sample Sentences
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A gome gais to ane garet. [a. 1500, The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane:]
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The King was glade of that golde, that the gome brought. [1515, The Scottish Field:]
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Whan the stalwart gome strade ower the spait An' clasp'd me in the flude. [1820, Scots Magazine:]
Nouns inflected like gome
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gome (“man”), from Old English guma (“man”), from Proto-West Germanic *gumō, from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), shortened variant of *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling”). Cognate to Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma) and Latin homō. Doublet of hombre, homo, ombre, and omi. See also human. See: Middle English Nouns '
gome', Old English Nouns '
guma', Gothic Nouns '
𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰', Latin Nouns '
homō'.
Verbs referencing "gome"
Latin Nouns
homo.