gieme
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *gaumō. The umlauted vowel is unexpected; perhaps the noun was influenced by the related verb ġīeman, where the umlaut is expected.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editġīeme f
Declension
editDeclension of ġīeme (weak)
Related terms
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ĠȲME”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.