succame

English

Etymology

Dialectal formation by analogy with come → came.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /səˈkeɪm/
  • Rhymes: -eɪm

Verb

succame

  1. (rare, nonstandard, chiefly Canada, US dialect) simple past of succumb
    He succame to his injuries.

Usage notes

  • Speakers who use this form typically keep the past participle as succumb, following the same analogy with come.

References

  • Royal Skousen, Deryle Lonsdale, Dilworth B. Parkinson, Analogical Modeling: An Exemplar-based Approach to Language, 2002, Page 22
  • Robert R. Ratcliffe, The "broken" Plural Problem in Arabic and Comparative Semitic: Allomorphy and Analogy in Non-concatenative Morphology, 1998, page 10

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