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English word origin

Etymology of hame

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”),

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Source etymology 1

Original entry ↗
noun

shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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”).

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionhameenm
  • Inherited-form mentionhamaang
  • Inherited-form mention*hamôgem-pro · clothes, skirt
  • Cognate mentionhamrnon
  • Cognate mentionhamda · skin, bladder, figure
  • Cognate mentionhamsda · shell, sleeve
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Source etymology 2

Original entry ↗
noun

Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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”)).

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionhameenm
  • Derivation mentionhamedum · horse collar, harness, fishnet
  • Derivation mention*hamoodt
  • Derivation mention*hamôgem-pro · fishnet, collar for a horse
  • Derivation mention*ḱem-ine-pro · part of a harness
  • Cognate mentionhamgml
  • Cognate mentionhamogoh · sack-like fishnet
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Source etymology 3

Original entry ↗
noun

Scottish and Northern English form of home

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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

Relationships mentioned by the source

These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.

  • Inherited-form mentionhamenm
  • Inherited-form mentionhāmang · home
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Source etymology 4

Original entry ↗
noun

Alternative form of haulm.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

From earlier haum, haume.

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