hamlet
English
/ˈhæm.lət/
noun
Definitions
- A small village or a group of houses.
- (British) A village that does not have its own church.
- Any of the fish of the genus in the family Serranidae.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English hamlet derived from Old French hamelet, hamel (hamlet), ham derived from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (home, village, house).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*haimaz
Gloss
home, village, house
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
家
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Hammond English
- hamleted English
- hamleteer English
- hamletted English
- Aymarus Latin
- Boiohaemum Latin
- Émeric French
- *kōim- Proto-Indo-European
- *kōym- Proto-Indo-European
- *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European
- *tḱóymos Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European
- *haimalīkaz Proto-Germanic
- *haimatjaną Proto-Germanic
- *haimaz Proto-Germanic
- ham Old English
- hām Old English
- hamlet Middle English
- heim Old Norse
- heimr Old Norse
- Aymon Old French
- ham Old French
- hamel Old French
- hamelet Old French
- heim Old High German
- hammel Norman
- hamel Middle French
- 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 Gothic
- *haim gmw-pro
- *haimōdi gmw-pro
- hēm Old Dutch
- *boio Proto-Celtic
- *haim Frankish