hamble

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*kem-“mutilated, hornless”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hamalōną“to mutilate”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*hamalōn
4. Old English · inherited fromhamelian“to hamstring, mutilate”
5. Middle English · inherited fromhamlen
6. English todayhamble

From Middle English hamlen, hamelen, from Old English hamelian (“to hamstring, mutilate”), from Proto-West Germanic *hamalōn, from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Cognate with German hammeln, hämmeln (“to geld”), Icelandic hamla (“to mutilate, maim”), Dutch hamel (“wether, castrated ram”).

Words from the same roots