coome

Yola

Alternative forms

• come, cum

Etymology

From Middle English comen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːm/
• Homophone: cowm

Verb

coome (simple past caame, past participle ee-cam)

1. to come
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Coome to thee met; Coome thee wyse.

     Come to thy meat; Come thy ways.

   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 108:

     Duggès an kauddès coome lick up a rhyme,

     Dogs and cats came to lick up the cream.

   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 108:

     A scalte croowe coome an taak aam awye,

     The scald-crow came and took them away,

Derived terms

• welkome

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 31