romon

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rāmēn.[2][3][4]

Verb

rōmon[1][5]

  1. to strive for

Conjugation

Conjugation of rōmon (weak class 2)
infinitive rōmon
indicative present past
1st person singular rōmon rōmoda
2nd person singular rōmos rōmodes
3rd person singular rōmod rōmoda
plural rōmiod rōmodun
subjunctive present past
1st person singular rōmo rōmodi
2nd person singular rōmos rōmodis
3rd person singular rōmo rōmodi
plural rōmion rōmodin
imperative present
singular rōmo
plural rōmiod
participle present past
rōmondi girōmod, rōmod

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: râmen (“to aim for, seek to meet”)
    • German Low German: råmen (“to overwhelm, conquer; to meet, encounter”)[6] (also < OS *ramon (“to overwhelm”) ⇐ PWG *ramm (“overwhelming”))
    • → Danish: ramme

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tiefenbach, Heinrich (2010) “RŌMON”, in Altsächsisches Handwörterbuch [A Concise Old Saxon Dictionary], Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., →DOI, →ISBN, page 316.
  2. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143: “PWGmc *rāmē- ‘strive, seek after’ (OHG rāmēn) >→ *rąˉmōn > OS rōmon”
  3. ^ Agee, Joshua (2018) “A Glottometric Subgrouping of the Early Germanic Languages (PhD thesis)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, San Jose State University, →DOI, page 143
  4. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “anberaumen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 28: “as. rāmon, rūmon”
  5. ^ Holthausen, Ferdinand (1954) “rōmon”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎ (in German), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, page 61
  6. ^ Frischbier, H. (1883) “råmen”, in Preußisches Wörterbuch. Ost- und westpreußische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge‎, volumes II: L – Z, Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin, page 211
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