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home · noun, verb, adjective, adverb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱey-
2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóymos
3. Proto-Indo-European*teḱ-
4. Proto-Indo-European*tḱéytibf.
5. Proto-Indo-European*tḱey-
6. Proto-Indo-European*tḱóymos
7. Proto-Germanic*haimaz
8. Proto-West Germanic*haim
9. Old Englishhām
10. Middle Englishhom
11. English todayhome

From Middle English hom, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

Home · noun²

From home.

Words from the same roots

First known use, by meaning

• from 13th c. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
• from 17th c. That strikes home; direct, pointed.
• 17th–19th c. Personal, intimate.
• from 19th c. Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).