Noun: cyme
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
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...ymb fēower ⁊ fēowertiġ wintra Ongolcynnes cȳmes in Breotone (...about forty-four years after the arrival of the Angles in Britain.)
Nouns inflected like cyme
hwistlere,
fuglere,
leornere,
folcstede,
grindere,
sundorwine,
morgenmete,
godspellere,
wyrtmete,
swiftlere,
gangere,
delfere,
predicere,
feohtere,
sangere,
horshierde,
feormere,
sunbryne,
heortgryre,
fiþelere, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *kumi, from Proto-Germanic *kumiz (“arrival”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Akin to Old Frisian keme, Old Saxon kumi, Old High German cumi (“arrival”), Gothic 𐌵𐌿𐌼𐍃 (qums), Old English cuman (“to come”). More at come. See: Gothic Nouns '
𐌵𐌿𐌼𐍃', Old English Nouns '
cuman'.
Verbs referencing "cyme"
Middle English Nouns
come.
Translations