hem

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See also: Hem, hẻm, 'hem, and hem-

English

Etymology 1

A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛm/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛm
  • Homophone: him (pin-pen merger)

Interjection

hem

  1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

Noun

hem (plural hems)

  1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
    • (Can we date this quote by Spectator and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      his morning hems

Verb

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  1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Hem, and stroke thy beard.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm and related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”). The Proto-Indo-European root gave rise also to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”) and Russian ком (kom, “lump”).

The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English *hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

A stitched hem.
Drawing of a sheet metal hem.

hem (plural hems)

  1. (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
  2. A rim or margin of something.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      hem of the sea
  3. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.
Derived terms
Translations
border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together

Verb

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  1. (intransitive) (in sewing) To make a hem.
  2. (transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
  3. (transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.

Derived terms

Translations
to put hem on an article of clothing

Etymology 3

From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em.

Pronoun

hem

  1. Obsolete form of 'em.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Caxton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Caxton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      For eyther of hem mayntened.
    • (Can we date this quote by M. Nisbet and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He prayis hem to lyue releg[ious] lyff[is] and to luk waraly for the cummyng of the lord.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Florio and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      ‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.
    • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem all.
    • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Except we make hem such.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Marston and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      They go forth on Holydays and gather hem by the seashore.
    • (Can we date this quote by Andrew Marvell and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      The mayor and alderman or any six of hem.

Anagrams

Bislama

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English him.

Pronoun

hem

  1. Third person singular pronoun:
    1. he; she
    2. him; her
    3. his; her
    4. his; hers

Catalan

Verb

hem

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hem, from Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hem

  1. (personal) Third-person singular, masculine, objective: him.
    Stuur dat maar naar hem.
    Send that to him.
  2. (personal) The tagger in a game of tag: it.

Inflection

Dutch personal pronouns
subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
plural
1st person wij we ons – ons, onze2 – onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je – je –
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun – hunne zich hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language.
2) Inflected as an adjective.
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). 		5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
6) To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people").

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

hem n (genitive singular hems, nominative plural hem)

  1. thin layer of ice
    Synonym: skæni

Declension

declension of hem
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hem hemið hem hemin
accusative hem hemið hem hemin
dative hemi heminu hemum hemunum
genitive hems hemsins hema hemanna

Verb

Template:is-verb form (weak)

  1. first-person singular present indicative of hemja
  2. second-person singular imperative of hemja

Kurdish

Conjunction

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  1. and

See also

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Latin

Pronunciation

Interjection

hem

  1. eh?, well well! (expressing surprise)

References

  • “hem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “hem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronoun

hem

  1. accusative/dative of hi
  2. dative of het

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch hin, from Proto-Germanic *himaz.

Pronoun

hem

  1. accusative/dative of si (“they”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English heom, from Proto-Germanic *himaz, masculine and neuter dative plural of *hiz.

Pronoun

hem (nominative he)

  1. Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9–11.
      And smale foweles maken melodye, / That slepen al the nyght with open eye- / (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
      And many little birds make melody / That sleep through all the night with open eye / (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)
    • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41
      And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew.
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  2. (reflexive) themselves
Alternative forms
Descendants
  • English: 'em, hem
  • Yola: aam

See also

References

Etymology 2

From Old English hemm. See English hem for more.

Noun

hem

  1. hem (edge of cloth or garment)
  2. edge, boundary
Alternative forms
Descendants

References

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hem

  1. Alternative form of him (“him”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hem

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of hemme

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Noun

hēm ?

  1. home, house
  2. hamlet

Inflection

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Descendants

Further reading

  • “hēm”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Pijin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English him

Pronoun

hem

  1. he/she/it (third-person singular pronoun)
    • 1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu‎[1], page 75:
      Bihaen hemi finisim skul blong hem, hemi go minista long sios long ples blong hem long 'Areo.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

Pijin personal pronouns
singular dual trial plural
1st person mi mitufala (exclusive)
iumitufala (inclusive) 		mitrifala (exclusive)
iumitrifala (inclusive) 		mifala (exclusive)
iumifala, iumi (inclusive)
2nd person iu iutufala iutrifala iufala
3rd person hem tufala trifala ol/olketa
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Portuguese

Interjection

hem

  1. Rare form of hein.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse heim < heimr, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Pronunciation

Adverb

hem

  1. home; to one's home
    Det är dags att gå hem.
    It is time to go home.

Noun

hem n

  1. a home; one's dwelling place, as in a house or a more general geographical place; the abiding place of the affections.
  2. a home; an institution

Declension

Declension of hem 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hem hemmet hem hemmen
Genitive hems hemmets hems hemmens

Derived terms

References

Turkish

Etymology

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(deprecated template usage)

Borrowing from Persian هم (ham).

Pronunciation

Adverb

hem

  1. and also

Conjunction

hem

  1. both; and
    Hem bu hem şu ― Both this one and that one
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