nemnan
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *namnijan (“to name”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editnemnan
- to name, call
- to enumerate
- to address, speak to
- to nominate
- to invoke, mention, mention by name
- to relate
Conjugation
editConjugation of nemnan (weak class 1)
infinitive | nemnan | nemnenne |
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indicative mood | present tense | past tense |
first person singular | nemne | nemde |
second person singular | nemnest | nemdest |
third person singular | nemneþ | nemde |
plural | nemnaþ | nemdon |
subjunctive | present tense | past tense |
singular | nemne | nemde |
plural | nemnen | nemden |
imperative | ||
singular | nemne | |
plural | nemnaþ | |
participle | present | past |
nemnende | (ġe)nemed, (ġe)nemned |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “NEMNAN”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “NEMNAN supplemental input”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[2], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.