tocome
English
Etymology
From to + come, or from Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme.
Noun
tocome (plural not attested)
- Alternative form of to-come (“future”)
- 1870, J. Payn, The F. B.; being a history of the school and college life of two young men, page 166:
- Legion was perhaps the only one of all the forty who looked forward to wearing his Majesty's uniform with satisfaction, a lad to whom the Tocome seemed always promising, and the Present never unbearable.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English tōcyme (“arrival, coming”).
Derived terms
References
- “tocome, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 April 2018.
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Middle English tocomen (“to come, arrive, happen”), from Old English tōcuman (“to come, arrive”), from Proto-Germanic *tō (“to”), *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to to- + come. Cognate with Dutch toekomen (“to forward, deserve, merit, suffice”), German zukommen (“to come on, benefit, become”).
Verb
tocome (third-person singular simple present tocomes, present participle tocomin, simple past tocam, past participle tocomen or tocomet)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English to-come, from Old English tōcyme (“coming, advent, arrival”).
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