comen

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English comen, cumen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English cumen, ġecumen, past participle of cuman (“to come”). More at come.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌmən

Verb

comen

1. alternative past participle of come.
   • 2002, Alison Hanham, The Celys and Their World:

     There is diverse of his gentlemen stolen away therefor, and some are comen to Calais, and one of them is sent to our sovereign lord and king.

Anagrams

• mecon

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) comen

1. third-person plural present indicative of comer

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Galician

Verb

comen

1. third-person plural present indicative of comer

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch cuman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną.

Alternative forms

• commen

Verb

cōmen

1. to come

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: komen, kommen
  • Afrikaans: kom
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: kumu
  • Javindo: kom
  • Jersey Dutch: kôme
  • Negerhollands: kom
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: kum, com, come
• Limburgish: kómme

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

cōmen

1. past participle of cōmen

Further reading

• “comen (III)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “comen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• cumen

Etymology

From Old English coman, cuman.

Verb

comen (third-person singular simple present cometh, present participle comende, comynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative cam, came, past participle comen, come)

1. to come
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23-24:

     At nyght was come into that hostelrye
     Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye

     There came at nightfall to that hostelry
     Some nine and twenty in a company

Descendants

• English: come
• Scots: cum
• Yola: coome

References

• “cǒmen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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Spanish

Verb

comen

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of comer.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of comer.