eom
See also: Eom and EOM
Middle English
Noun
eom
- (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
- eam, æm, am, iom
Verb
eom
- first-person singular present indicative of wesan
Descendants
- Middle English: am, em
- English: am
- Scots: am
- Yola: aam, am
Pronoun
eom
- Alternative form of him: (to) him/it/them
References
- 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)
- 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