hamelen
Middle English
FWOTD – 6 September 2017
Alternative forms
- homelen, heomelen, hamlen
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈha.me.len/, /ˈha.mə.lən/
Verb
hamelen (third-person singular simple present hameleth, present participle hamelende, simple past 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 863541017; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book II, [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio clxxviii, recto, lines 960–964, column 2:
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- To cut short, to truncate.
References
- “hamelen, v.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 August 2017.
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