hyem

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Northumbria/jɛm/

hyem noun: home.

Noun

hyem (uncountable)

(Northumbria) home
- [19th c.] 1993, Ned Corvan, “Yer Gannin to be a Keelman,” in Visions of the People, Patrick Joyce http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=z_nMtyp7XCEC&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&sig=SHwbkD-bXZaWxJharfiXxajyEGU
  Ye’ll be comin’ hyem at neets, with yor fyece all ower black,
  And ye’ll lie an snore...
- “He had just come in,” he said, “to see if his mate was come hyem yet; but as he had not, he thought he could guess right weel where he wad be, and wad just step o’er to Brown’s (the gin-shop) and see.”1848, Sinks of London Laid Open

Forms of hyem

alternative form	heyem
alternative form	hjem
alternative form	yem

Origin of hyem

From Northern Middle English hame, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Cognate with German Heim, Swedish hem, Dutch heem, heim- and West Frisian hiem. Note that this pronunciation is not derived from Old Norse, as is sometimes assumed on the basis of Danish and Norwegian hjem - the pronunciation in Geordie is directly derivable from the Old English form by regular rules. Compare traditional styen (“stone”) [stjɛn] from stān, or clem (“stone, cloam”) [klɛm] from clām. It can also be found in some other northern dialects like Yorkshire.

Words that rhyme with hyem

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Questions about hyem

What does hyem mean?: Hyem means home.
What part of speech is hyem?: Hyem is a noun.
How do you pronounce hyem?: Hyem is pronounced /jɛm/ (Northumbria).

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