eom
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]eom
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of em
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.[1]
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
[edit]- am — Northumbrian
- eam — Mercian, West Saxon
- æm, æom, iom
Verb
[edit]eom
Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]eom
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 113
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