quemen

quemen

1. third-person plural present indicative of quemar
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of quemar

quemen

1. to please; to gratify
   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     My fader nyl for no thyng do me grace / To gon aȝeyn, for naught I kan hym queme [...].

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• komen, kumen

Inherited from Old High German queman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈkwɛmən/

quëmen (irregular strong, third-person singular present quimet, past tense quam, past participle komen, past subjunctive quæme, auxiliary sīn)

1. to come

• Alemannic German: choo, cho, cha

  Italian Walser: cheemen, cheme, cho, chomu, chéeme

• Bavarian:

  Cimbrian: khemmen, khèmman, ken

  Mòcheno: kemmen

  Udinese: ckeman, kèmmin, khemen

• Central Franconian: komme, kumme (some Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch), kun, kunn, konn (Ripuarian; some Moselle Franconian dialects; chiefly dated), kunn, kuun, konn, kumme, komme

  Hunsrik: komme

• German: kommen
• Luxembourgish: kommen
• Rhine Franconian:

  Pennsylvania German: kumme

• Yiddish: קומען (kumen)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “quemen”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke‎^[1], Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

quemen

1. inflection of quemar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative