Word: come Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt Proto-Germanic *kwemaną Proto-West Germanic *kweman Old English cuman Middle English comen English come From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step; to arrive”), from *gʷem- (“to come, step”). Cognates Cognate from Proto-Germanic with Scots cum (“to come”), Yola come, coome, cum (“to come”), North Frisian kaame, kame, keem, kem, kum, kååme, käme (“to come”), Saterland Frisian kume, kuume (“to come”), West Frisian komme (“to come”), Alemannic German cha, cheemen, cheme, cho, chomu, chéeme (“to come”), Bavarian ckeman, kemma, kemman, khemen, kumma, kumman, kèmmin (“to come”), Central Franconian komme, kunn, kumme (“to come”), Cimbrian ken, khemmen, khèmman (“to come”), Dutch komen, kommen (“to come”), Dutch Low Saxon kåmen (“to come”), German and Luxembourgish kommen (“to come”), Low German kamen, kuemen (“to come”), Mòcheno kemmen (“to come”), Yiddish קימען (kimen), קומען (kumen, “to come”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål komme (“to come”), Elfdalian kumå (“to come”), Faroese and Icelandic koma (“to come; to arrive”), Jamtish kuma (“to come”), Norwegian Nynorsk koma, komma, komme, kåmmå, kåmå (“to come”), Swedish komma (“to come”), Crimean Gothic kommen (“to come”), Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (qiman, “to come”). Cognate from Proto-Indo-European with Latin venio (“to come; to approach”), Greek βήμα (víma, “pace, step”), Albanian ngah, ngaj (“to hasten, run”), Latvian dzimt (“to be born”), Lithuanian gimti (“to be born”), Armenian եկ (ek, “the act of coming, arrival; income”), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬨 (gam, “to come, go”), Northern Kurdish gav (“step”), Persian گام (gâm, “step”), Tocharian A kum- (“to come”), Tocharian B käm- (“to come”), Sanskrit गम् (gam, “to come, go, move”). Pronunciation: /kʌm/, [kʰʌm] ~ [kʰɐm], [kʰʌm], [kəm], [km̩] 1. To move nearer to the point of perspective. Labels: intransitive Example: She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes the wrong way […] Example: Look, who comes yonder? 2. To move nearer to the point of perspective. Labels: intransitive Example: I called the dog, but she wouldn't come. Example: Stop dawdling and come here! 3. To move nearer to the point of perspective. Labels: intransitive Example: Hold on, I'll come in a second. Example: You should ask the doctor to come to your house. 4. To move nearer to the point of perspective. Labels: intransitive Example: No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit. Example: Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year. 5. To move nearer to the point of perspective. Labels: intransitive Example: King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming. Example: He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him. 6. To move nearer to the point of perspective. Labels: intransitive Example: The butler should come when called. 7. To arrive. Labels: intransitive Example: Late at night comes Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "The Royal James," "Oake," and "London," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships: […] Example: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her. 8. To appear; to manifest itself; to cause a reaction by manifesting. Labels: intransitive Example: The pain in his leg comes and goes. Example: The news came as a shock. 9. To begin (to have an opinion or feeling). Example: We came to believe that he was not so innocent after all. Example: She came to think of that country as her home. 10. To do something by chance or unintentionally. Example: Could you tell me how the document came to be discovered? 11. To take a position relative to something else in a sequence. Labels: intransitive Example: Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn. 12. To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate. Labels: intransitive, often, slang, vulgar Example: She came after a few minutes. Example: Come in me! 13. To become butter by being churned. Labels: intransitive Example: when butter does refuse to come 14. To approach or reach a state of being or accomplishment. Labels: copulative, figuratively Example: They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect. Example: One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart. 15. To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. Labels: figuratively Example: He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits. 16. To become, to turn out to be (often in set phrases and certain collocations). Labels: archaic, copulative Example: Near-synonyms: become, get, go, turn, fall, grow, wax Example: come true 17. To be supplied, or made available; to exist. Labels: intransitive Example: He's as tough as they come. Example: Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours. 18. To carry through; to succeed in. Labels: slang Example: You can't come any tricks here. 19. To happen. Labels: intransitive Example: This kind of accident comes when you are careless. Example: But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous. 20. To have as an origin, originate. Labels: intransitive Example: While Kate Roberts came from a poor background and, later in life, in the post-Second World War period suffered from severe money shortages, in the early 1930s, she and her husband must have counted themselves relatively well off, particularly in comparison with their neighbours in Tonypandy. 21. To have as an origin, originate. Labels: intransitive Example: Where did you come from? 22. To have as an origin, originate. Labels: intransitive Example: She comes from a good family. Example: He comes from a disreputable legal firm. 23. To have as an origin, originate. Labels: intransitive Example: The river comes from Bear Lake. Example: Where does this road come from? 24. To germinate. Labels: intransitive 25. To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of; to assume the role of. Labels: informal, transitive Example: Don’t come the innocent victim. We all know who’s to blame here. Example: “Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!” / “None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.”