wilcume
Old English edit
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *wiljakumô. Compare wilcuma (“welcome guest”), formed from the same root. Cognate with Old High German willicumo
Interjection edit
wilcume
- welcome
- 8th century, Lindisfarne Gospels Saint Matthew, translation, Chapter 25, verse 23,
- Wilcymo lā dgoda ך lēaffull, forðon ofer lytla ðū wēre lēafull, ofer moniġo ðeh ic setto, ġeong in glædnisse hlāferdes ðīnes.
- Welcome O good one and faithful, for over little you were faithful, over many I put you, young in gladness of your lord.
- 8th century, Lindisfarne Gospels Saint Matthew, translation, Chapter 25, verse 23,
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References edit
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wil-cume”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.