hame

English

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hame

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English hame, home, from Old English hama, homa (“a cover, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“clothes, skirt”). Cognate with Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”). More at heaven.

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. (obsolete) A covering, skin, membrane.

Related terms

• heam
• likam

Etymology 2

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”)).

Noun

hame (plural hames)

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

Coordinate terms

• horse collar
• More at: horse harness § parts

Derived terms

• hamestrap
• hame string

Translations

Etymology 3

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

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. Scottish form of home

Etymology 4

From earlier haum, haume.

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. Alternative form of haulm

Anagrams

• HEMA, Hema, Mahé, ah me, ahem, haem, haem-, heam, hæm-

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• hama (Timau)

Etymology

From Middle High German heim, from Old High German heim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Cognate with German Heim, Dutch heem, English home, Icelandic heimur; also Albanian komb.

Noun

hame n

1. (Sappada, Sauris) home

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hamëh, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hamiz (compare Old Norse hamr) or *hamisaz (“shirt”) (compare Old Norse hams).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑmeˣ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑme
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧me

Noun

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

hame

Wikipedia ^fi

hame

1. skirt

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “hame”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hamëh. Cognates include Finnish hame and Estonian hame.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑme/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑme/,
• Rhymes: -ɑme
• Hyphenation: ha‧me

Noun

hame

1. skirt

Declension

Derived terms

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 43

Latin

Noun

hāme

1. vocative singular of hāmus

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hama, homa, from Proto-West Germanic *hamō, from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“cover, skin”).

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. hame (skin, membrane)
2. integument
3. slough (skin shed by a reptile)
4. (in the plural, ornithology) plumage

Alternative forms

• haum

Descendants

• English: hame, heam

References

• “hāme, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hame (“horse collar, harness; fishnet”), from Old Dutch *hamo, from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“fishnet; collar for a horse”).

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. hame (part of a horse harness)

Alternative forms

• hamme, home

Descendants

• English: hame
• Scots: hame
• Yola: hamas (plural)

References

• “hāme, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. (Northern) Alternative form of hom (“home”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hame

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Etymology 5

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure; meadow”)

Etymology 6

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. Alternative form of hamme (“back of the knee”)

Occitan

Noun

hame f (plural hames) (Gascony)

1. Alternative form of hami

References

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 77.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English ham, hame, northern variants of home, from Old English hām, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːm/, /heɪ̯m/,

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. home

Derived terms

Adverb

hame (not comparable)

1. at home

Synonyms

• ahame