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”). 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 *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

metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.

• Finnish: länget (fi) pl
• Irish: amaí m pl
• Maori: hemi
• Plautdietsch: Heem f
• Russian: хомутовые клещи (xomutovyje klešči)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑmeˣ/, [ˈhɑme̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑme
• Syllabification^(key): ha‧me

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

Possessive forms of hame (type hame)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	hameeni	hameemme
2nd person	hameesi	hameenne
3rd person	hameensa

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 (plural hames)

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

Etymology 6

Noun

hame (plural hames)

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.

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

• ahame
• hame-aboot
• hame-comin
• hame-drauchtit
• hame-gaun
• hame-made
• hame-throu
• hameless
• hamelt
• hamely
• hamespun
• hamit
• hamle

 

Adverb

hame (not comparable)

1. at home

Synonyms

• ahame