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Middle English
Noun
eom
- (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.
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
- (West Saxon) first-person singular present indicative of wesan
Descendants
Etymology 2
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