eom

See also: Eom and EOM

Middle English

Noun

eom

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of em

Old English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eo̯m/

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi (“I am”), via the variant *imō by analogy with regular first-person singular ending *-ō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”), a form of the verb *wesaną. The variant eam is apparently after the vocalism of eart.[1]

Akin to Old Norse em (“I am”), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “I am”), Old High German bim (“I am”), Ancient Greek εἰμί (eimí), Sanskrit अस्मि (ásmi).

Alternative forms

Verb

eom

  1. first-person singular present indicative of wesan
Descendants
  • Middle English: am, em
    • English: am
    • Scots: am
    • Yola: aam, am

Pronoun

eom

  1. Alternative form of him: (to) him/it/them

References
  1. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 113

Umbrian
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Etymology

From Proto-Italic *eō. Cognate with Latin eō.

Verb

eom (intransitive)

  1. to go

References
  • Ancillotti, Augusto; Cerri, Romolo (2015), “etu”, in Vocabolario dell'umbro delle tavole di Gubbio [Vocabulary of Umbrian and of the Iguvine Tables] (in Italian), page 18
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “eō, īre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 191
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