hame

Etymology 1

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.

noun

1. (obsolete) A covering, skin, membrane.

Etymology 2

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”)).

noun

1. Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.

Etymology 3

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

noun

1. Scottish form of home

Etymology 4

From earlier haum, haume.

noun

1. Alternative form of haulm