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English

home

/həʊm/
One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.

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    Origin

    From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.

    Cognates

    Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

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    Lineage

    • inheritedMiddle Englishhōm
      • inheritedOld Englishhām “undergarment”
        • inheritedProto-West Germanic*haim
          • inheritedProto-Germanic*haimaz “village, home”
            • inheritedProto-Indo-European*tḱóymos
              • partProto-Indo-European*tḱey-
                • derivedProto-Indo-European*tḱéyti
                  • partProto-Indo-European*teḱ- “to give birth”
                  • partProto-Indo-European*-éyti
              • partProto-Indo-European*-mos

    Related: English heyem (doublet), Scots hame, Yola haime, Saterland Frisian Heem, Alemannic German haim, Bavarian hama, Cimbrian hòam, Dutch heem, German Heim, Limburgish heim, Luxembourgish Heem, Mòcheno hoa'm, Vilamovian ham, Yiddish היים, Danish hjem, Icelandic heim, Norwegian Bokmål heim, Norwegian Nynorsk heim, Swedish hem, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃, Irish caoimh, Lithuanian kaimas, Albanian komb, Ancient Greek κώμη

    Words built on it: the, care home

    Meanings

    noun
    1. One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
    2. The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; a childhood or parental home; the home of one’s parents or guardian.
    3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
    4. A house that has been made homelike, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
    5. A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
    6. The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
    verb
    1. To return to its owner.
    adj
    1. Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign.
    2. That strikes home; direct, pointed.
    3. Personal, intimate.
    4. Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
    adv
    1. To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
    2. To one's place of birth.
    3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
    4. To the home page.
    5. At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
    6. To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.

    Sources

    • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
    • Wiktionary: home