Meaning

1 senses
  1. (dialectal, rare)To empty; teem.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. They asked me what Toom looked like.

    deIch wurde gefragt, wie Tom aussehe. — Waldelfe

Origin

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *t

From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).

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Forms

tooms, tooming, toomed, toomed
Base formtoom · to toom
3rd person singulartooms
Present participletooming
Past simpletoomed
Past participletoomed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytoom
he, she, ittooms

Past simpleLesson

all personstoomed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave toomed
he, she, ithas toomed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill toom

See also

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