[Mid] Middle-English Word of the Day - January 17, 2008

Gome (n.) - a man.

For to haf greued Gaynour and gart hir to dyghe
With glopnyng of that ilke /gome/ that gostlych speked
With his hede in his honde bifore the hyghe table.

- Anonymous: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1400)

Pronunciation: /gOm@/

Key
/g/ g in go
/O/ o in cloth
/m/ m in make
/@/ a in sofa

The Middle-English Word of the Day is selected from Mayhew and
Skeat's "Concise Dictionary of Middle English", as found on Greg
Lindahl's website
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/concise/concise.html

The example text was found at the Middle English Collection of the
University of Virginia Library.
http://etext.virginia.edu/collections/languages/english/
mideng.browse.html

The approximate pronunciation is determined using Carol Hamill's
Middle English Pronunciation Guide
and noted using upon the ASCII-IPA Standard
http://www.island.net/~hamill/medieval/mepronunc.html
http://www.kirshenbaum.net/IPA/

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