wilcume
Old English
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editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *wiljakumô. Compare wilcuma (“welcome guest”), formed from the same root. Cognate with Old High German willicumo
Pronunciation
editInterjection
editwilcume
- welcome
- 8th century, Lindisfarne Gospels Saint Matthew, translation, Chapter 25, verse 23,
- Wilcymo lā ðū gōda ðeġn ⁊ lēaffull, forðon ofer lytla ðū wēre lēafull, ofer moniġo ðeh iċ setto, ġeong in glædnisse hlāferdes ðīnes.
- Welcome, good and faithful servant, because you were faithful over a few things, I will place you over many; go in the gladness of your lord.
- 8th century, Lindisfarne Gospels Saint Matthew, translation, Chapter 25, verse 23,
See also
editReferences
edit- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wil-cume”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.