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níw-cumen

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newly come, just arrived
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  • Swilce hí nícumene sýn and swilce hí ealles dæges ǽr náhtes ne onbirigdon,

      Hml. A. 146, 68.
one newly come to a religious house, a novice
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  • S nícumena mearce dó

    ille novitius signum faciat,

      R. Ben. I. 97, 17.
  • Hé sí gelǽd on þám húse nícumenra

    (novitiorum),

      96, 15.
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[Cf. O. H. Ger. níw(i)-quemo novitius.]
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