eom

See also: Eom and EOM

Middle English

Noun

eom

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of em

Old English

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /e͜om/

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. (West Saxon) 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
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