eom
Middle English edit
Noun edit
eom
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of em
Old English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-West Germanic *im, from Proto-Germanic *immi (“I am”), via the variant *imō by analogy with regular first-person singular ending *-ō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”), a form of the verb *wesaną. The variant eam is apparently after the vocalism of eart.[1]
Akin to Old Norse em (“I am”), Gothic 𐌹𐌼 (im, “I am”), Old High German bim (“I am”), Ancient Greek εἰμί (eimí), Sanskrit अस्मि (ásmi).
Alternative forms edit
- am — Northumbrian
- eam — Mercian, West Saxon
- æm, æom, iom
Verb edit
eom
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronoun edit
eom
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 113