dumben
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmən
Verb
dumben (third-person singular simple present dumbens, present participle dumbening, simple past and past participle dumbened)
- (transitive, rare) To make dumb.
- 2004, Welsh Arts Council, Poetry Wales:
- Please hush-now this heart to dumben this breath. Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English dumbian, from Proto-West Germanic *dumbōn, from Proto-Germanic *dumbōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdumbən/
Verb
dumben (rare)
- To make no sound or movement.
Conjugation
Conjugation of dumben (weak in -ed)
| infinitive | (to) dumben, dumbe | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | dumbe | dumbed | |
| 2nd-person singular | dumbest | dumbedest | |
| 3rd-person singular | dumbeth | dumbed | |
| subjunctive singular | dumbe | ||
| imperative singular | — | ||
| plural1 | dumben, dumbe | dumbeden, dumbede | |
| imperative plural | dumbeth, dumbe | — | |
| participles | dumbynge, dumbende | dumbed, ydumbed | |
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants
- English: dumb
References
- “dǒmben, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-02.
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