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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *gamunan.
Pronunciation
Verb
ġemunan
- to remember
Iċ his ġeman swelċe hit ġiestrandæġ wǣre.- I remember it like it was yesterday.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Nativiity of Our Lord"
Hēo ġemunde hwæt sum witeġa cwæð, "Sē oxa oncnēow his hlāford, and sē assa his hlāfordes binne."- She remembered that a prophet had said, "The ox knows his master, and the ass his master's bin."
Usage notes
- In Late West Saxon and the Anglian dialects, this verb was sometimes inflected as if it were not preterite-present: attested forms include iċ ġemune, þū ġemunst, and hē/hēo/hit ġemanþ.
Conjugation
Descendants