The story
- Old English · derived fromhāmcyme“homecoming; return”
- Middle English · derived fromhom-come
- Middle English · inherited fromhom-comyng
- English todayhomecoming
From Middle English hom-comyng, home komyng, home-cumyng, home-commynge, equivalent to home + coming. Probably an alteration of earlier Middle English hom-come, homkome, hame-come, ham-cume, from Old English hāmcyme (“homecoming; return”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.