comaunden

Middle English

FWOTD – 10 February 2020

Alternative forms

• comanden, commaunden, commanden, comaunde, comande, commaunde

Etymology

From Old French comander, from Latin commandāre, variant of commendāre; doublet of commenden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈmau̯ndən/, /kuˈmandən/, /kɔ-/

Verb

comaunden (third-person singular simple present comaundeth, present participle comaundende, comaundynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle comaunded)

1. To command; to order (someone to do something)
2. To demand; to order (something should be done)
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 9:4, page 120r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     ⁊ it was comau[n]did to he[m].· þat þei ſchulde[n] not hirte þe gras of erþe. neþ[er] ony greene þing. neiþ[er] ony tree but oneli men.· þ[a]t han not þe ſigne of god i[n] her forhedis

     And they were told that they shouldn't hurt the ground's grass, anything green, or any tree, but only humans that didn't have the sigil of God on their foreheads.

3. To dominate; to exercise power over.
4. To grant or consign to someone.
5. (rare) To need; to be required.

Conjugation

Conjugation of comaunden (weak in -ed/suffixless)

infinitive	(to) comaunden, comaunde
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	comaunde	comaunded, comaunde
2nd-person singular	comaundest	comaundedest, comaundest
3rd-person singular	comaundeth	comaunded, comaunde
subjunctive singular	comaunde
imperative singular		—
plural1	comaunden, comaunde	comaundeden, comaundede, comaunden, comaunde
imperative plural	comaundeth, comaunde	—
participles	comaundynge, comaundende	comaunded, comaund, ycomaunded, ycomaund

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Related terms

• comaundable
• comaunde
• comaundement
• comaundour
• recomaunden

Descendants

• English: command
• Scots: command

References

• “commaunden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2020-01-07.