hamelen
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Etymology edit
From Old English hamelian, possibly from Old Norse (compare Icelandic hamla (“to maim, mutilate”)),[1] from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną, *hamlōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“hornless; mutilated”).
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Verb edit
hamelen (third-person singular simple present hameleth, present participle hamelende, hamelynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative hamelede, hamlede, past participle hameled, ihamled)
- To maim, to mutilate.
- c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book II, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio clxxviii, recto, column 2, lines 960–964:
- To cut short, to truncate.
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References edit
- ^ “hamelen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 August 2017.