gemunan

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gamunan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeˈmu.nɑn/

Verb

ġemunan

1. to remember [+accusative or genitive]

   Iċ his ġeman swelċe hit ġiestrandæġ wǣre.

   I remember it like it was yesterday.

   • c. 992, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Nativiity of Our Lord"

     Hēo ġemunde hwæt sum witeġa cwæð, "Sē oxa oncnēow his hlāford, and sē assa his hlāfordes binne."

     She remembered that a prophet had said, "The ox knows his master, and the ass his master's bin."

Usage notes

• In Late West Saxon and the Anglian dialects, this verb was sometimes inflected as if it were not preterite-present: attested forms include iċ ġemune, þū ġemunst, and hē/hēo/hit ġemanþ.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ġemunan (preterite-present)

infinitive	ġemunan	ġemunenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	ġeman	ġemunde
second person singular	ġemanst	ġemundest
third person singular	ġeman	ġemunde
plural	ġemunon	ġemundon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	ġemyne	ġemunde
plural	ġemynen	ġemunden
imperative
singular	ġemun, ġemyne
plural	ġemunaþ
participle	present	past
	ġemunende	ġemunen

Related terms

• ġemynd (“memory”)
• myndgian (“to remind”)

Descendants

• Middle English: i-mune