hame

See also: Häme

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱam- (“cover, clothes”). Cognate with Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”). More at heaven.

Noun

hame (plural hames)

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

Etymology 2

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”)).

Noun

hame (plural hames)

  1. Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
Derived terms
  • hamestrap
  • hamestring
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 halm

Anagrams

Bavarian

Noun

hame ?

  1. (Sappada, Sauris) home

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Finnish

(index ha)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ha‧me
  • Rhymes: -ɑme
  • IPA(key): [ˈhɑme̞ˣ]

Noun

hame

  1. skirt

Declension

Inflection of hame (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative hame hameet
genitive hameen hameiden
hameitten
partitive hametta hameita
illative hameeseen hameisiin
hameihin
singular plural
nominative hame hameet
accusative nom. hame hameet
gen. hameen
genitive hameen hameiden
hameitten
partitive hametta hameita
inessive hameessa hameissa
elative hameesta hameista
illative hameeseen hameisiin
hameihin
adessive hameella hameilla
ablative hameelta hameilta
allative hameelle hameille
essive hameena hameina
translative hameeksi hameiksi
instructive — hamein
abessive hameetta hameitta
comitative — hameineen

Latin

Noun

hāme

  1. vocative singular of hāmus

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hame

  1. Alternative form of home

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hame

  1. Alternative form of hem
References

Scots

Etymology

From Old English hām.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈheːm/, /heɪ̯m/, [hem]

Noun

hame (plural hames)

  1. home

Derived terms

Adverb

hame (not comparable)

  1. at home

Synonyms

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