queme

Meaning

Verb

• To please, to satisfy.

Origin

• From Middle English quemen ("to please"), from Old English cweman, cwēman (compare cweme, cweman and cwemnes, cwēmnes), from Proto-West Germanic *kwēmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną ("to please, be convenient, suit"), from *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- ("to go, come"). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman ("come"), English come. Compare also quim.