succame

English

Etymology

Dialectal formation by analogy with come → came.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈkeɪm/
• Rhymes: -eɪm

Verb

succame

1. (rare, nonstandard, chiefly Canada, US dialect) simple past of succumb

   He succame to his injuries.

Usage notes

• Speakers who use this form typically keep the past participle as succumb, following the same analogy with come.

References

• Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale, Dilworth B. Parkinson, Analogical Modeling: An Exemplar-based Approach to Language, 2002, Page 22
• Robert R. Ratcliffe, The "broken" Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and Analogy in Non-concatenative Morphology, 1998, page 10

Anagrams

• ceacums, cæcums