gome

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.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəʊm/

gome

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) A man.
   • a. 1500, The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane:

     A gome gais to ane garet.

   • 1515, The Scottish Field:

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

   • 1820, Scots Magazine:

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

The word gome survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is not used in common speech.

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Inherited from Old English guma, from Proto-Germanic *gumô, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ.

• gume, goome, gomme, gone, gom, goom

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːm(ə)/, /ˈɡum(ə)/

gome (plural gomes or gomen)

1. A man; a male human being.
   • 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..

2. A fighter or combatant; one who engages in battle.
3. A young male; a child who is male.
4. A person of any gender; a human being.
5. (rare) A male hireling, assistant or underling
6. (rare) A bridegroom; a male spouse.

• bridegome

• English: gome
• Scots: gome

• gome in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “gǒme, gōme (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Inherited from Old English gōma, from Proto-Germanic *gōmô.

• gume, goome, gomme, gumme

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɔm(ə)/

gome (plural gomes or goman)

1. (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth; the gum.
2. The interior of one's mouth; the palate or roof of the mouth.
3. (rare, late me) One's teeth or jaws.

• English: gum (dialectal goom)
• Scots: goom, geem, gum

• “gọ̄me, gom(m)e (n.(3))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Borrowed from Old Norse gaumr, from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz.

• gom, goom

• IPA^(key): /ɡoːm/

gome (uncountable)

1. Regard, attention, gaum.

• English: gaum, gorm (dialectal)
• Scots: goam

• “gọ̄me (n.(4))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-10.

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gome.

gome

1. Alternative form of gumme

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

gome (plural gomes)

1. a man