Níw-cumen

According to the Old English Dictionary:

níw-cumen

Add: I. newly come, just arrived :-- Swilce hí nícumene sýn and swilce hí ealles dæges ǽr náhtes ne onbirigdon, Hml. A. 146, 68. II. one newly come to a religious house, a novice :-- S nícumena mearce dó ille novitius signum faciat, R. Ben. I. 97, 17. Hé sí gelǽd on þám húse nícumenra (novitiorum), 96, 15. [Cf. O. H. Ger. níw(i)-quemo novitius.] niw-cumen