different between ancome vs oncome

English

Alternative forms

• income (Scotland)
• oncome
• uncome

Etymology

From Middle English onkome (“a swelling”), from earlier oncome, oncume (“an unexpected evil”), from Middle English ancomen, oncumen, from Old English oncumen, past participle of ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”); equivalent to on- +? come. Cognate with Dutch aankomen (“to arrive, to gain weight”), German ankommen (“to arrive”), Swedish ankomma (“to arrive”).

Noun

ancome (plural ancomes)

1. (obsolete) A small inflammatory swelling, arising suddenly.

Anagrams

• came on, coname, oncame

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English oncomen, from Old English oncuman, ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”), from Proto-Germanic *anakweman? (“to come to, come at, arrive”), equivalent to on- +? come. Cognate with Dutch aankomen (“to arrive”), German ankommen (“to arrive”), Swedish ankomma (“to arrive”).

Verb

oncome (third-person singular simple present oncomes, present participle oncoming, simple past oncame, past participle oncome)

1. (intransitive, rare) To arrive; come to; come on.
   • 1844, Homerus, The Iliad, rendered in Homeric verse, by L. Shadwell:

     This said, and shaking his long dark spear, then forward he hurl'd it Into the fullround buckler of Priamides Alexander; Right thro' his glittering shield oncame the redoubtable warspear, On still advanced, throughpiercing his breastplate's various-art-work [...]

   • 1999, Alfred Corn, Stake: poems, 1972-1992:

     A trip from you. Taken. . . . Then time oncame [...]

Etymology 2

From Middle English oncome (“an attack”), equivalent to on- +? come. Compare Old English ancuman (“to arrive, come upon, happen”). More at ancome, income.

Noun

oncome (plural oncomes)

1. Advent, arrival, approach; onset
   • 1978, Edna O'Brien, I hardly knew you:

     I see the dawn or rather I feel the oncome of it.

2. The commencement or initial stages of a business, especially of one which requires great exertion.
3. The setting about of an action; development; progress.
4. An attack; an attack or onset of a disease, fit, or episode.
   • 1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14:

     On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.

   • 1906, Appleton's magazine: Volume 7:

     "She often has oncomes," explained Angus shortly. "But now we will tell, for though but children, we talk straighter."

5. (dialectal) A mysterious disease or ailment.
   • 1858, Sir Walter Scott, The bride of Lammermoor:

     This woman had acquired a considerable reputation among the ignorant by the pretended cures which she performed, especially in oncomes, as the Scotch call them, or mysterious diseases, which baffle the regular physician.

6. (dialectal) A heavy fall of rain or snow; cloudburst.
7. (of a chimney) The lower edge of a fire-clay lining piece.

Synonyms

• outburst
• outgush
• advent, arrival

Anagrams

• come on, come-on

Scots

Noun

oncome (plural oncomes)

1. advent, arrival (of)

   but thir is nae mair an the oncome o birth-thraws --Mark 13, W.L. Lorimer translation