romon

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rāmēn.[2][3][4]

Verb

rōmon[1][5]

  1. to strive for

Conjugation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • Middle Low German: râmen (“to aim for, seek to meet”)
    • German Low German: råmen (“to overwhelm, conquer; to meet, encounter”)[6] (also < OS *ramon (“to overwhelm”) ⇐ PWG *ramm (“overwhelming”))
    • → Danish: ramme

References
  1. Tiefenbach, Heinrich (2010), “RŌMON”, in Altsächsisches Handwörterbuch [A Concise Old Saxon Dictionary], Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., →DOI, →ISBN, page 316.
  2. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 143: “PWGmc *rāmē- ‘strive, seek after’ (OHG rāmēn) >→ *rąˉmōn > OS rōmon”
  3. Agee, Joshua (2018), “A Glottometric Subgrouping of the Early Germanic Languages (PhD thesis)”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, San Jose State University, →DOI, page 143
  4. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “anberaumen”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 28: “as. rāmon, rūmon”
  5. Holthausen, Ferdinand (1954), “rōmon”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (in German), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, page 61
  6. Frischbier, H. (1883), “råmen”, in Preußisches Wörterbuch: Ost- und westpreußische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge‎, volume II: L – Z, Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin, page 211
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