comeling

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comeling

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From Middle English comeling, comlynge, cumeling, cumlyng, from Old English *cymeling, equivalent to come + -ling. Cognate with Old High German chomeling, chumelinc (“a comeling”).

noun comelings

obsolete A comer; (person) an arrival.
obsolete An incomer.
A newcomer; stranger. Faust took a deep breath. 'That is what I was going to tell you. Sadly, the comelings caught him.'
Similar: come-here

Similar: newling, offcomer

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Similar: newling, offcomer

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@misc{comeling_2026,
  title = {comeling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/comeling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}