Gome

//ɡʌm// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A man. Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete

    "A gome gais to ane garet."

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sheila

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"The King was glade of that golde, that the gome brought."

Etymology

From Middle English gome (“man”), from Old English guma (“man”), from Proto-West Germanic *gumō, from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), shortened variant of *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling”). Cognate to Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma) and Latin homō. Doublet of hombre, homo, ombre, and omi. See also human.

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