eom

See also: Eom and EOM

Middle English

Noun

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  1. (Early Middle EnglishCategory:Early Middle English#EOM) alternative form of em

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /e͜om/Category:Old English terms with IPA pronunciation#EOM

Etymology 1

    Category:Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#EOMCategory:Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁es-#EOMCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#EOMCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#EOMCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#EOMCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#EOMCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#EOMCategory:Pages with inline etymon for redlinks#EOMCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#EOM

    From Proto-West GermanicCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#EOMCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#EOM *im, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#EOMCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#EOM *immi (“I am”), via the variant *imō by analogy with regular first-person singular ending *-ō, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Old English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#EOMCategory:Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#EOM *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)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#EOM.

    Alternative forms

    Verb

    eomCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#EOMCategory:Old English verb forms#EOMCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#EOMCategory:Pages with entries#EOMCategory:Pages with 2 entries#EOM

    1. (West SaxonCategory:West Saxon Old English#EOM) first-person singular present indicative of wesan
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

    Pronoun

    eomCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#EOMCategory:Old English pronoun forms#EOMCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#EOMCategory:Pages with entries#EOMCategory:Pages with 2 entries#EOM

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

    Etymology 3

    Noun

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    1. dative plural of eoh

    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
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