ham
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ɦɑm/
noun
Definitions
- ham cured pork from the thigh of a swine
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch hamme inherited from Proto-Germanic *hammō (shinbone, the hollow of the knee, ham) derived from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (leg).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*kónh₂m
Gloss
leg
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
脚
Emoji
🍗
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Newham English
- butter-ham English
- ham English
- ham-fisted English
- hambeast English
- hambone English
- hamese English
- hamfat English
- hamfest English
- hamlike English
- hammy English
- hamshackle English
- hamstring English
- hamvraag Dutch, Flemish
- in Dutch, Flemish
- inham Dutch, Flemish
- vraag Dutch, Flemish
- κνήμη Ancient Greek
- *kónh₂m Proto-Indo-European
- *hammō Proto-Germanic
- *hamō Proto-Germanic
- ハム Japanese
- ham Old English
- hamm Old English
- hamme Middle English
- hǫm Old Norse
- แฮม Thai
- ham Cebuano
- hamme Middle Dutch
- hamma Old High German
- ham Afrikaans
- hamme Middle High German
- Ham Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *knāmis Proto-Celtic
- Hamme Alemannic German
- 햄 Korean