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Definitions and meaning of hame

hame

English

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 and Northern English 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 [Our Words], 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/, [ˈhɑ̝me̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑme
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧me
• Hyphenation^(key): ha‧me

Noun

hame

1. skirt

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “hame”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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/, [ˈhɑme̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑme/, [ˈhɑme̞]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑmeh/, [ˈhɑme̞h]
• 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
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 30

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

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

Etymology 6

Noun

hame

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.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑː.me/, [ˈhɑː.me]
• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑ.me/, [ˈhɑ.me]

Noun

hāme

1. dative singular of hām

Noun

hame

1. dative singular of ham

Scots

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːm/, /heɪ̯m/, [hem]

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. home

Derived terms

Adverb

hame (not comparable)

1. at home

Synonyms

• ahame

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