Hamm

See also: hamm

English

Etymology

• As an English and German surname, from hamm (“enclosure, land by a stream”).
• Also as a German surname, from Hamm in Westphalia, itself from a Low German derivative of Proto-Germanic *hammō (“corner, hollow, bend”), used in the sense "river bend," similar to Hamburg.

Proper noun

Hamm

1. An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.
2. A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Anagrams

• Ah Mm

East Central German

Etymology

Compare German Heim.

Noun

Hamm

1. (Erzgebirgisch) home

Related terms

• Hammweh

Further reading

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57:

German

Etymology

From Middle Low German ham, hamm (“land enclosed by a river”); cognate with Old English hamm (“enclosure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈham/

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• Rhymes: -am

Proper noun

Hamm m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hamms or (with an article) Hamm, feminine genitive Hamm, plural Hamms)

1. a topographic or habitational surname with an etymology similar to that of English Hamm

Proper noun

Hamm n (proper noun, genitive Hamms or (optionally with an article) Hamm)

1. Hamm (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)