gieme
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gaumō. The umlauted vowel is unexpected; perhaps the noun was influenced by the related verb ġīeman, where the umlaut is expected.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈji͜yː.me/
Declension
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠȲME”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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