rewme

Middle English

Borrowed from Old French reaume, of disputed origin.^[1] For the change of /ɛu̯/ to /ɛː/ before /m/, compare flewme.

rewme (plural rewmes)

kingdom, realm, nation
region, area, province
zone, area of effect
dominion, rulership, lordship
The subjects of a ruler; the people of a realm.
The Kingdom of Heaven; God's kingdom.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[2], published c. 1410, Luke 8:1, page 32r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
  And it was doon aftirward · ⁊ [iheſus] made iourneis bi citees ⁊ caſtelis, [pꝛe]ch[in]ge ⁊ euangelizynge þe rewme of god / ⁊ twelue wiþ h[im] ·
  After that happened, Jesus made visits to cities and fortresses, preaching about and disseminating the kingdom of God with the Twelve alongside him.

^ “rēaume, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 April 2018.
^ Nöjd, Ruben (1919), “Stressed Vowels and Diphthongs”, in The vocalism of Romanic words in Chaucer‎^[1], Part II, Uppsala: Appelbergs Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, →OCLC, page 35.