quemen – Middle English verb conjugation

Middle English verb forms of quemen

Infinitive

quemen; to quemen; queme

Participles

Presentquemende; quemynge
Pastquemed

Indicative

Present

1st sing.queme
2nd sing.quemest
3rd sing.quemeth
1st plur.quemen; queme; quemeth
2nd plur.quemen; queme; quemeth
3rd plur.quemen; queme; quemeth

Past

1st sing.quemed; quemede
2nd sing.quemedest
3rd sing.quemed; quemede
1st plur.quemeden; quemed; quemede
2nd plur.quemeden; quemed; quemede
3rd plur.quemeden; quemed; quemede

Subjunctive

Present

1st sing.queme
2nd sing.queme
3rd sing.queme

Past

1st sing.quemed; quemede
2nd sing.quemed; quemede
3rd sing.quemed; quemede

Imperative

Singularqueme
Pluralquemeth; queme

Etymology

Inherited from Old English cwēman, ġecwēman, from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, comfort, come”); By surface analysis, queme + -en (infinitive suffix).

Verbs referencing "quemen"

English queme.

Sample Sentences

  • My fader nyl for no thyng do me grace / To gon aȝeyn, for naught I kan hym queme [...]. (Troilus and Criseyde) [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:]

Cognates

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