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 and Northern English 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
• Hyphenation^(key): ha‧me

hame

1. skirt

• “hame”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑmeh/, [ˈhɑme̞h]
• Rhymes: -ɑme
• Hyphenation: ha‧me

hame

1. skirt

Declension of hame (type 6/lähe, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	hame	hammeet
genitive	hammeen	hammein
partitive	hametta	hammeita
illative	hammeesse	hammeisse
inessive	hammees	hammeis
elative	hammeest	hammeist
allative	hammeelle	hammeille
adessive	hammeel	hammeil
ablative	hammeelt	hammeilt
translative	hammeeks	hammeiks
essive	hammeenna, hammeen	hammeinna, hammein
exessive1)	hammeent	hammeint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 43
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 30

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑː.me/, [ˈhɑː.me]
• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑ.me/, [ˈhɑ.me]

hāme

1. dative singular of hām

hame

1. dative singular of ham

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