Him, 

Teutonic Terminations. 750 
“Glossary of the Frisian Language,”’ the following statement : 
“ Ham applies to every enclosure by rampart, ditch, or hedge. 
In the country of the Angles as well as in North Friesland 
every enclosed place is called a hamm.” And from another 
authority he quotes these words: “ Whatever obstructs or is 
obstructed, hems in or is hemmed in, is called hamm or hemme, 
whether it be a forest, a fenced field, a meadow. a swamp, 
a reed-bank, or isolated lowlands won by circumscribing with 
palisades an area in the bed of a river; indeed even a house, 
or a castle, was so called by the Frisians.} 
It is very important to distinguish between this word with 
its accented vowel and that which has just been explained. 
This word, as Kemble remarks, denotes ‘“‘ something far more 
sacred and profound, and is the most intimately felt of all 
the words by which the dwellings of man are distinguished.” 
From it is derived the word Aeman, which in its purest sense 
signifies to “ marry,” and so represents to us the family itself, 
and the sanctity of home, as well as the subsequent union of 
several families. Kemble adds these important words: “Hém 
in its largest sense implies the general assemblage of the 
dwellings in each particular district, to which the arable land 
and pasture of the community were appurtenant, the Lome 
of all the settlers in a separate and well-defined locality, the 
collection of the houses of the freeman. Wherever we can 
assure ourselves that the vowel is long, we may be certain that 
the name implies such a village or community.” ® 
Wee. This word in composition usually means a dwelling- 
place of one or more houses. The general idea would seem 
to be that of a place fenced and fortified, shut in and so a 
place of security. There are still woods and copses known 
as wieks. In such words as Sand-wich it would seem to have 
the sense of a “harbour.” From this idea of harbour or 
shelter comes the sense of camp, or village, or hamlet and 
even of castle. In military history “they encamped” is 
1 Anglo-Saxon Names of Places, p. 39. 
*Cod, Dipl. iii., xxix 
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