Hame Definition

Origin of Hame

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

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

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

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• Middle English from Middle Dutch tkei- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From earlier haum, haume.

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