Infinitive
Participles
| Present | undernimmende |
| Past | undernome; undernum |
Indicative
Past
| 1st sing. | undernam |
| 3rd sing. | undernam |
Imperative
Etymology
From Old English underniman (“to take in, receive, comprehend, understand, blame, be indignant at, take upon oneself, steal”). Cognate with Dutch ondernemen (“to undertake, attempt”), German unternehmen (“to undertake, attempt”). See: Old English '
underniman', Dutch '
ondernemen', German, old spelling '
unternehmen'.
Sample Sentences
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"And with that word Tiburce his brother come;
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And whan that he the savour undernome* (Which that the roses and the lillies cast […]
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Undernome—undertook—took in subordinately;—as it were, dimly perceived the scent of the flowers he could not see.
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(please add an English translation of this quotation)) [1858 (original: circa 1400), Mary Cowden Clarke (editor), Geoffrey Chaucer (author), The Canterbury Tales, in World-noted Women; Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Land and Ages, page 107]
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2004 (original: 1357–1371), John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Alas! that it is great slander to our faith and to our law, when folk that be without law shall reprove us and undernim us of our sins, [...]
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2012 (original: ????), Sammy R Browne, A Brief Anthology of English Literature (Lulu.com), page 190 (And, when she came to the point for to say that thing which she had so long concealed, her confessor was a little too hasty and gan sharply to undernim her ere that she had fully said her intent, and so she would no more say […]
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Cognates
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