hame

• Rhymes: -eɪm

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.

hame (plural hames)

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

• heam
• likam

From Middle English hame, 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”)).

hame (plural hames)

1. Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.

• hamestrap
• hamestring

From Middle English ham, from Old English hām (“home”). More at home.

hame (plural hames)

1. Scottish form of home

From earlier haum, haume.

hame (plural hames)

1. Alternative form of halm

• HEMA, ah me, ahem, haem, haem-, heam, hæm-

• hama (Timau)

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.

hame n

1. (Sappada, Sauris) home

• “hame” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

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

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

hame

1. skirt

hāme

1. vocative singular of hāmus

From Old English hām.

hame

1. Alternative form of home

From Old English heom.

hame

1. Alternative form of hem

From Old English ham (“back of the knee”).

hame

1. Alternative form of hamme (“back of the knee”)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːm/, /heɪ̯m/, [hem]

hame (plural hames)

1. home

hame (not comparable)

1. at home

• ahame