gome

Etymology

From Middle English gome (“man”), from Old English guma (“man”), from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”), *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling”). Related to Latin homō. See also human.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡəʊm/

Noun

gome

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) A man.
   • The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane (a1500)

     A gome gais to ane garet.

     A gome goes to a garret.

   • The Scottish Field (1515)

     The King was glade of that golde, that the gome brought.

   • Scots Magazine (1820)

     Whan the stalwart gome strade ower the spait An' clasp'd me in the flude.

     When the stalwart gome strode over the spate and clasped me in the flood.

Anagrams

• mego

Etymology

Old English guma.

Noun

gome

1. man
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     And þus bigynneth þes gomes · to greden ful heiȝ.

   • c1450, Life of Saint Cuthbertː

     Some towns wex near toom, In the which woned many a gome.

   • a1460-a1500, The Towneley Plays:

     To thee, Jesus, I make my mone..farwell! gracious gome! where so thou gone..

Etymology

From Middle English gome, gume, from Old English guma (“man, lord, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *gumô (“man”).

Noun

gome (plural gomes)

1. a man