hame

• Rhymes: -eɪm

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.

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 Frankish *hamō, from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“fishnet, collar for a horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom- (“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.

• horse collar
• More at: horse harness § parts

• hamestrap
• hame string

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 haulm

• HEMA, Hema, Mahé, 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

• 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

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

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

hame

1. skirt

• “hame”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

From Proto-Finnic *hamëh. Cognates include Finnish hame and Estonian hame.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑme/, [ˈhɑme̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑme/, [ˈhɑme̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑme
• Hyphenation: ha‧me

hame

1. skirt

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 43

hāme

1. vocative singular of hāmus

From Old English hama, homa, from Proto-West Germanic *hamō, from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“cover, skin”).

hame (plural hames)

1. hame (skin, membrane)
2. integument
3. slough (skin shed by a reptile)
4. (in the plural, ornithology) plumage

• haum

• English: hame, heam

• “hāme, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Middle Dutch hame (“horse collar, harness; fishnet”), from Old Dutch *hamo, from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“fishnet; collar for a horse”).

hame (plural hames)

1. hame (part of a horse harness)

• hamme, home

• English: hame
• Scots: hame
• Yola: hamas (plural)

• “hāme, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

hame (plural hames)

1. (Northern) Alternative form of hom (“home”)

hame

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

hame (plural hames)

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

hame (plural hames)

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

hame f (plural hames) (Gascony)

1. Alternative form of hami

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 77.

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