rewme
Middle English
Alternative forms
- realme, reaulme, reaume, reeaulm, reeme, reme, reome, reume, rialme
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French reaume, of disputed origin. For the change of /ɛu̯/ to /ɛː/ before /m/, compare flewme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛu̯m(ə)/, /ˈrɛːm(ə)/
Noun
rewme (plural rewmes)
- kingdom, realm, nation
- region, area, province
- zone, area of effect
- dominion, rulership, lordship
- The subjects of a ruler; the people of a realm.
- The Kingdom of Heaven; God's kingdom.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Luke 8:1, page 32r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- And it was doon aftirward · ⁊ [iheſus] made iourneis bi citees ⁊ caſtelis, [pꝛe]ch[in]ge ⁊ euangelizynge þerewme of god/ ⁊ twelue wiþ h[im] ·
- After that happened, Jesus made visits to cities and fortresses, preaching about and disseminating the kingdom of God with the Twelve alongside him.
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Descendants
- English: realm
- Scots: realm
References
- “rēaume, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-10.