come

English

/kʌm/, /kʌm/

verb
Definitions
  • (intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.
  • (intransitive) To arrive.
  • (intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.
  • (with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.
  • (with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.
  • (intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.
  • (intransitive) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.
  • (copulative) To approach a state of being or accomplishment.
  • (figuratively) To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.
  • (copulative) To become, to turn out to be.
  • (intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.
  • (slang) To carry through; to succeed in.
  • (intransitive) Happen.
  • (intransitive) To have as an origin, originate.
  • (intransitive) To germinate.
  • (transitive) To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English comen inherited from Old English coman inherited from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (come) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (step, come, go, walk), *gʷem- (step, come, go, walk).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gʷem-

Gloss

step, come, go, walk

Concept
Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

歩

Emoji
🪜

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