"cuman" meaning in Old English

See cuman in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈku.mɑn/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*kweman}} Proto-West Germanic *kweman, {{der|ang|gem-pro|*kwemaną}} Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, {{der|ang|ine-pro|*gʷémt||to step}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), {{der|ang|ine-pro|*gʷem-}} Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Head templates: {{ang-verb}} cuman Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|cuman<s4>}} Forms: strong [table-tags], cuman [infinitive], cumenne [infinitive], cume [first-person, present, singular], cōm [first-person, past, singular], cwōm [first-person, past, singular], cymest [present, second-person, singular], cymst [present, second-person, singular], cōme [past, second-person, singular], cwōme [past, second-person, singular], cymeþ [present, singular, third-person], cymþ [present, singular, third-person], cōm [past, singular, third-person], cwōm [past, singular, third-person], cumaþ [plural, present], cōmon [past, plural], cwōmon [past, plural], cume [present, singular], cōme [past, singular], cwōme [past, singular], cumen [plural, present], cōmen [past, plural], cwōmen [past, plural], cum [imperative, past, present, singular], cumaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], cumende [imperative, present], cumen [imperative, past], ġecumen [imperative, past], cymen [imperative, past], ġecymen [imperative, past]
  1. to come Derived forms: ancuman, becuman, forcuman, forecuman, forþcuman, incuman, ofercuman, upcuman, ġecuman
    Sense id: en-cuman-ang-verb-InxwJN6G Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "comen"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: comen, cumen\nEnglish: come, cum\nSolombala English: комъ (kom)\nScots: cum\nYola: coome, come, cum",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: comen, cumen\nEnglish: come, cum\nSolombala English: комъ (kom)\nScots: cum\nYola: coome, come, cum"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*kweman"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *kweman",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*kwemaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kwemaną",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷémt",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to step"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷem-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "4",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuman",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cume",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymeþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōmon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōmon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cume",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōmen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōmen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cum",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecumen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecymen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cuman",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cuman<s4>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "ancuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "becuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "forcuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "forecuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "forþcuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "incuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "ofercuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "upcuman"
        },
        {
          "word": "ġecuman"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He came home last night so late.",
          "text": "Hē cōm hām ġiestran niht swīðe late.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Where did you come from?",
          "text": "Hwanon cōme þū?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Ah! when will the Saviour come?",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Purification of St. Mary\"\nĒlā, hwænne cymð sē Hǣlend?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Bid the Christian man come to me,...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint George, Martyr\"\nHāt cuman tō mē þone cristenan mann...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "We are all guests in this life, and our home is not here, but we're here as wayfaring people. One person comes, another goes. One is born, another dies and makes them room.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Greater Litany\"\nWē sind eall cuman on þissum līfe, and ūre eard nis nā hēr, ac wē sind hēr swelċe weġfērende menn. Ān cymþ, ōðer færeþ. Sē biþ ācenned, sē ōðer forþfæreþ and rȳmþ him setl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to come"
      ],
      "id": "en-cuman-ang-verb-InxwJN6G",
      "links": [
        [
          "come",
          "come"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈku.mɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cuman"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ancuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "becuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "forcuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "forecuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "forþcuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "incuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "ofercuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "upcuman"
    },
    {
      "word": "ġecuman"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "comen"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: comen, cumen\nEnglish: come, cum\nSolombala English: комъ (kom)\nScots: cum\nYola: coome, come, cum",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: comen, cumen\nEnglish: come, cum\nSolombala English: комъ (kom)\nScots: cum\nYola: coome, come, cum"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*kweman"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *kweman",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*kwemaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kwemaną",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷémt",
        "4": "",
        "5": "to step"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʷem-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "4",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cuman",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumenne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cume",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymeþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōm",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōmon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōmon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cume",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cōmen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cwōmen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cum",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cumen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecumen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cymen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġecymen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cuman",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cuman<s4>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English class 4 strong verbs",
        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Old English terms with usage examples",
        "Old English verbs",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He came home last night so late.",
          "text": "Hē cōm hām ġiestran niht swīðe late.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Where did you come from?",
          "text": "Hwanon cōme þū?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Ah! when will the Saviour come?",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Purification of St. Mary\"\nĒlā, hwænne cymð sē Hǣlend?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "Bid the Christian man come to me,...",
          "text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint George, Martyr\"\nHāt cuman tō mē þone cristenan mann...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "We are all guests in this life, and our home is not here, but we're here as wayfaring people. One person comes, another goes. One is born, another dies and makes them room.",
          "text": "c. 992, Ælfric, \"On the Greater Litany\"\nWē sind eall cuman on þissum līfe, and ūre eard nis nā hēr, ac wē sind hēr swelċe weġfērende menn. Ān cymþ, ōðer færeþ. Sē biþ ācenned, sē ōðer forþfæreþ and rȳmþ him setl.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to come"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "come",
          "come"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈku.mɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cuman"
}

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