kumme

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Central Franconian

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Alternative forms

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  • komme (many dialects)
  • kuun, kunn, konn (Ripuarian; some Moselle Franconian dialects; chiefly dated)

Etymology

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From Middle High German quemen, from Old High German kweman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt. The form is a conflation of native kunn and German kommen.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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kumme (third-person singular present kütt, past tense kom, past participle jekumme)

  1. (some Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch) to come
    • 1981, “Jraaduss”‎[1]performed by BAP:
      Manchmol setz ich eröm un ich frooch mich, woröm
      Et su kumme mot, wie et kom, wie et jetz es.
      Un ich saach mer, datt et irjendwo wiggerjonn moss – jradus.
      Sometimes I sit around and I wonder why
      It had to come the way it came, the way it is now.
      And I tell myself that somehow it has to go on – straight ahead.

Pali

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Noun

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kumme

  1. inflection of kumma (tortoise):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German komen, from Old High German kweman. Compare German kommen, Dutch komen, English come.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kumme

  1. to come

Conjugation

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