Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. · A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal. · Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food. · The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
Inherited from Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-West Germanic *hammu, from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”). Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Old Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shinbone”). Compare gammon and gam.
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- Inherited-form mentionhammeenm
- Inherited-form mentionhammang · inner or hind part of the knee, ham
- Inherited-form mention*hammugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hamōgem-pro
- Derivation mention*kónh₂mine-pro · leg
- Cognate mentionhamnl · ham
- Cognate mentionHammede · hind part of the knee, ham
- Cognate mentionhamsv · the hind part of the knee
- Cognate mentionhömis · the ham or haunch of a horse
- Cognate mentioncnáimsga · bone
- Cognate mentionκνήμηgrc · shinbone
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