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cwom

  • verb
  • participle
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cwom, pl. cwómon came; venit, venerunt; have the same meanings as the contracted forms com, pl. cómon, p. of cuman , q. v. The p. indic., pl. cwómon,-an, -un; p. subj.
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  • Ðá hleóðor cwom

    when the sound came,

    • Cd. 181
      • ;
    • Th. 226,
      • 29;
    • Dan. 178
      • .

  • Ðá ðú ǽrest cwóme

    when thou first camest,

    • Exon. 39a
      • ;
    • Th. 129,
      • 25;
    • Gú. 426
      • .

  • Hwonne bearn Godes cwóme

    when the child of God should have come,

    • 10a
      • ;
    • Th. 10,
      • 6;
    • Cri. 148
      • .

  • To Hierasalem cwómon

    they came to Jerusalem,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 547
      • ;
    • El. 274
      • .

  • Cwóman englas

    angels came,

    • Exon. 15b
      • ;
    • Th. 34,
      • 21;
    • Cri. 545
      • .

  • Wuldres áras cwómun

    messengers of glory came,

    • 15a
      • ;
    • Th. 31,
      • 11;
    • Cri. 494
      • .

  • Cwom, pl. cwómon, seent to be from cwiman, which I have not found in A. Sax. It is in Goth. qiman [pronounced kwiman = cwiman]; p. qam, pl. qemum; pp. qumans to come; venire. Goth. Ni mag qiman [kwiman = cwiman]. A. Sax. Ic ne mæg cuman

    I cannot come,

    • Lk. Bos. 14,
      • 20.
cwóme
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v. cwiman, cuman.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “cwom.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/7006.

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