Hamm

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

  • As an English and German surname, from hamm (enclosure, land by a stream).
  • Also as a German surname, from Hamm in Westphalia, itself from a Low German derivative of Proto-Germanic *hammō (corner, hollow, bend), used in the sense "river bend," similar to Hamburg.

Proper noun[edit]

Hamm

  1. An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.
  2. A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Anagrams[edit]

East Central German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Compare German Heim.

Noun[edit]

Hamm

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) home

Related terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

  • 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[1], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57:

German[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle Low German ham, hamm (land enclosed by a river); cognate with Old English hamm (enclosure).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈham/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -am

Proper noun[edit]

Hamm m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hamms or (with an article) Hamm, feminine genitive Hamm, plural Hamms)

  1. a topographic or habitational surname with an etymology similar to that of English Hamm

Proper noun[edit]

Hamm n (proper noun, genitive Hamms or (optionally with an article) Hamm)

  1. Hamm (an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)