fornimen

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English forniman (“to take away, deprive of, plunder, waste, devastate, destroy, consume, annul, disfigure, overcome”), from Proto-Germanic *farnemaną, *franemaną (“to take away, hear, learn”), equivalent to for- +‎ nimen.

Cognate with West Frisian fornimme (“to learn, hear, find out”), Dutch vernemen (“to learn, hear, find out, understand”), German vernehmen (“to hear, learn, question, examine”), Swedish förnimma (“to apprehend, perceive, notice”). More at for-, nim.

Verb

fornimen (third-person singular simple present fornimeth, present participle fornimende, past singular fornom, past plural fornomen, past participle fornomen)

  1. (transitive) to take away, remove; deprive
  2. (transitive) to destroy, do away with, fordo
  3. (transitive) to encroach upon

Conjugation

Conjugation of fornimen (strong class 4)
infinitive (to) fornimen, fornime
present tense past tense
1st-person singular fornime fornom, fornam
2nd-person singular fornimest fornome, forname, fornom, fornam
3rd-person singular fornimeth fornom, fornam
subjunctive singular fornime fornome1, forname1
imperative singular —
plural2 fornimen, fornime fornomen, fornome, fornamen, forname
imperative plural fornimeth, fornime —
participles fornimynge, fornimende fornumen, fornume, fornomen, fornome

1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

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