coome

Yola

Alternative forms

come, cum

Etymology

From Middle English comen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman.

Verb

coome (simple past caame or cam' or cam, past participle ee-cam)

to come
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
  Coome to thee met; Coome thee wyse.
  Come to thy meat; Come thy ways.

References

Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 31

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