gaum.
heed, attention, notice
Meaning & usage
heed, attention, notice
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Norse gaumr (“heed, attention”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz (“heed, attention”). The further origin is disputed. The word has traditionally been connected with Old Norse gá (“to notice, perceive”), though this connection has been questioned in more recent Germanic etymology. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk gaum, Icelandic gaumur and gaum, Old English ġīeme and ġȳme, Old Frisian gāme, Old Saxon gōma and Old High German gouma (“heed, attention”). English gaum (“heed, attention”) was borrowed through Middle English from Old Norse.
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