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Of unknown origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic*hamô(“collar, harness, fishnet”). Traditionally compared to Ancient Greekχάβος(khábos, “muzzle, curved”), but de Vaan rejects the possibility of a loan due to the vowel length.
“hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
hamus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
hamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“hamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279
^ Priebsch, R., Collinson, W. E. (1938). The German Language. United States: Macmillan, p. 43
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