rewme
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French reaume, of disputed origin.[1] For the change of /ɛu̯/ to /ɛː/ before /m/, compare flewme.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rewme (plural rewmes)
- kingdom, realm, nation
- region, area, province
- zone, area of effect
- dominion, rulership, lordship
- The subjects of a ruler; the people of a realm.
- The Kingdom of Heaven; God's kingdom.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[3], published c. 1410, Luke 8:1, folio 32, recto, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- And it was doon aftirward · ⁊ [iheſus] made iourneis bi citees ⁊ caſtelis, [pꝛe]ch[in]ge ⁊ euangelizynge þe rewme of god / ⁊ twelue wiþ h[im] ·
- After that happened, Jesus made visits to cities and fortresses, preaching about and disseminating the kingdom of God with the Twelve alongside him.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “rēaume, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 3.83, page 107.
- ^ Nöjd, Ruben (1919), “Stressed Vowels and Diphthongs”, in The vocalism of Romanic words in Chaucer[2], Part II, Uppsala: Appelbergs Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, →OCLC, page 35.