wilcume

== Old English == === Alternative forms === wilcuma, wilcuman wilcymo — Northumbrian === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *wiljakumô. Compare wilcuma (“welcome guest”), formed from the same root. Cognate with Old High German willicumo === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwil.ku.me/, [ˈwiɫ.ku.me] === Interjection === wilcume Unclear; perhaps well done, hooray, or in later years welcome. Glosses Latin euge. 8th century, Lindisfarne Gospels Saint Matthew, translation, Chapter 25, verse 23, === See also === wilcuma === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wil-cume”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.