Old English · noun

guma

Part of speech: noun, masculine
Declension: weak
IPA: /ˈɡu.mɑ/
Syllables: ˈɡu · mɑ (2 syllables)
Modern English: gome hero man

Meaning

man, hero

Swā sceal geong guma · gōde gewyrcean, / fromum feoh-giftum · on fæder bearme

So should a young man do good deeds / by fine treasure-gifts while in his father's keeping
c. 1000, Beowulf (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV), lines 20–21:

Declension

Declension of guma
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	guma	guman
Accusative	guman	guman
Genitive	guman	gumena
Dative	guman	gumum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gumō. Cognate with Old Saxon gumo, Old High German gumo, gomo, Old Norse gumi (Icelandic gumi and Norwegian gume), Gothic (guma), Latin homō, Proto-Balto-Slavic *źmṓ (Lithuanian žmogùs).

Descendants

gome

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