hame

Also used as

hame is also the scottish and Northern English form of home.

hame is also the alternative form of haulm.

Forms of hame

Origin of hame

From Middle English hame, home, from Old English hama, homa (“a cover, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“clothes, skirt”). Cognate with Old Norse hamr and its descendants, such as Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”).

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”)).

From Middle English ham, from Old English hām (“home”). More at home.

Words formed from hame

• hamestrap
• hame string

Related words

• heam
• likam

Phrases with hame

• hame strings

Words that rhyme with hame

• frame
• game
• inflame
• claim
• flame
• name
• dame
• tame
• acclaim
• aim
• lame
• shame

Questions about hame

What does hame mean?

Hame means shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.

What part of speech is hame?

Hame is a noun.

What is the plural of hame?

The plural of hame is hames.