hame

hame · noun¹

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hamô“clothes, skirt”
2. Old English · inherited fromhama
3. Middle English · inherited fromhame
4. English todayhame

From Middle English hame, home, from Old English hama, homa (“a cover, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“clothes, skirt”). Cognate with Old Norse hamr and its descendants, such as Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”).

hame · noun²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ḱom-“part of a harness”
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hamô“fishnet, collar for a horse”
3. Frankish · derived from*hamō
4. Old Dutch · derived from*hamo
5. Middle Dutch · derived fromhame“horse collar, harness, fishnet”
6. Middle English · inherited fromhame
7. English todayhame

From Middle English hame, from Middle Dutch hame (“horse collar, harness, fishnet”), from Old Dutch *hamo, from Frankish *hamō, from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“fishnet, collar for a horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom- (“part of a harness”). Cognate with Middle Low German ham, hame (“collar, fishnet”), Old High German hamo (“sack-like fishnet”) (Modern German dialectal Hame, Hamen (“hand fishnet”), Ham (“horse collar”)).

hame · noun³

1. Old English · inherited fromhām“home”
2. Middle English · inherited fromham
3. English todayhame

From Middle English ham, from Old English hām (“home”). More at home.

hame · noun⁴

From earlier haum, haume.

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