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I came across the following dialogue, which occurs right as the hero arrives:

> 「やっと来おったか。」

I'm not sure how to parse 来おった. Is it 来{き} + 居{お}る? If so, what exactly does
this form mean? Do other verbs have a similar form?

Searching online, I see examples like とうとう来おった and ついに来おった, so my best guess
right now is that the nuance is related to とうとう・ついに・やっと.

I've tried looking this up in paper dictionaries and online, but I'm having
trouble finding it anywhere, so I thought I'd ask here!
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verbs conjugations subsidiary-verbs renyōkei
Is 来おった the 連用形{れんようけい} of くる plus おる → おった?
Yes, [来]{き}おる is a combination of [来]{く}る and [居]{お}る, although 居る in this
usage is usually written in hiragana in the modern Japanese. Adding おる after
the continuative form of a verb usually means that the speaker is looking down
upon the subject of the verb. See sense 〔2〕-[2] in
[Daijirin](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E3%81%8A%E3%82%8B&dtype=0&dname=0ss&stype=0&index=102829400000&pagenum=1)
and sense 3-① in
[Daijisen](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E3%81%8A%E3%82%8B&dtype=0&dname=0na&stype=0&pagenum=1&index=02640800).
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