The story
- Middle English · derived fromhemp“hemp”
- English todayHamp
* As an English surname, of various origins, including the suburb Hamp in Somerset, from the source of the suffix -ham (“closed in land”) and a variant of Hamm, or from Middle English hemp (“hemp”). * As a German surname, variant of Hampe.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishhemp all →
hemp
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.