hame

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪm

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

hame (plural hames)

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

Related terms

• heam
• likam

Etymology 2

From Middle English, 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”)).

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

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 halm.

Anagrams

• ahem
• haem

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Finnish

(index ha)

Etymology

From a Germanic language.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ha‧me
• Rhymes: -ɑme
• IPA: [ˈhɑme̞ˣ], X-SAMPA: ["hAme(?)]

Noun

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hame

1. skirt

Declension

Declension of hame (type hame) singular plural nominative hame hameet genitive hameen hameiden hameitten partitive hametta hameita accusative hame hameen hameet 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

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Latin

Noun

hāme

1. vocative singular of hāmus

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈheːm/, [hem]]

Etymology

From Old English hām.

Noun

hame (plural hames)

1. home

Derived terms

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

Adverb

hame (not comparable)

1. at home

Synonyms

• ahame