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Old English · noun

mome

Normalised mōme

Part of speech: noun, feminine
Declension: weak n-stem
IPA: /ˈmoː.me/
Syllables: ˈmoː · me (2 syllables)
Modern English: aunt mama mom mum mother's sister

Meaning

aunt (mother's sister)

Declension

Declension of mome
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mōme	mōman
Accusative	mōman	mōman
Genitive	mōman	mōmena
Dative	mōman	mōmum

All forms (4)

mōme
mōman
mōmena
mōmum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *mōmā, from Proto-Germanic *mōmǭ (“mother's sister, aunt”).

Descendants

mama, mom, mum

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