Noun: gome
| Sg. | gome |
| Pl. | gomes; gomen; goman |
Genitive
| Sg. | gome; gomes |
| Pl. | gomes; gomene |
Sample Sentences
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And þus bigynneth þes gomes · to greden ful heiȝ. (And thus began these men · to cry out full high.^(Verification Needed)) [c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:]
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Some towns wex near toom, In the which woned many a gome. (Some towns wax near empty, In which lived many a man.^(Verification Needed)) [c. 1450, Life of Saint Cuthbert:]
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To the, ihesu, I make my mone; / ffarwell! comly, of cors so cleyn! / ffarwel! gracyouse gome! where so thou gone, / fful mekill grace is to the geyn; (To thee, Jesus, I make my lamentation: farewell, pleasing [man], so clean of body! Farewell, gracious man! Wheresoever thou goest, you will gain much grace) [15th c., “Iohannes baptista [John the Baptist]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 203, lines 267–270:]
Nouns inflected like gome
gome,
Etymology
Inherited from Old English guma, from Proto-West Germanic *gumō, from Proto-Germanic *gumô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ. See: Old English Nouns '
guma', Old English Nouns '
guma'.
Verbs referencing "gome"
English Nouns
gumption, English Nouns
gaum, English Nouns
gome, English Nouns
gomeral.
Translations