Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England. · A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
* As an English and German surname, from hamm (“enclosure, land by a stream”). * Also as a German surname, from Hamm in Westphalia, itself from a Low German derivative of Proto-Germanic *hammō (“corner, hollow, bend”), used in the sense "river bend," similar to Hamburg.
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- Derivation mention*hammōgem-pro · corner, hollow, bend
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