succame

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English

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Etymology

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Dialectal formation by analogy with comecame.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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succame

  1. (rare, nonstandard, chiefly Canada, US dialect) simple past of succumb
    He succame to his injuries.

Usage notes

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  • Speakers who use this form typically keep the past participle as succumb, following the same analogy with come.

References

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  • Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale, Dilworth B. Parkinson, Analogical Modeling: An Exemplar-based Approach to Language, 2002, Page 22
  • Robert R. Ratcliffe, The "broken" Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and Analogy in Non-concatenative Morphology, 1998, page 10

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