hame

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But the song goes to her very heart It's hame, and its hame--hame fain wad I be O!

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  1. noun One of the two curved wooden or metal pieces of a harness that fits around the neck of a draft animal and to which the traces are attached.

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  1. Middle English, from Middle Dutch; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hame, home, from Anglo-Saxon hama, homa, a cover, skin, = Old Saxon hamo = OFries. homa, hama, a cover, = Dutch haam, a hame (def. 2), = Middle Low German ham = Old High German hamo, Middle High German hame, ham, German hamen = Icelandic hamr = Danish ham = Gothic (Moesogothic) *hama, a cover, covering (later ga-hamōn, cover). In sense 2 the word is perhaps of Dutch origin.
 

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