coome

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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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,

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References

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  • 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