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Dut. and Fl. huis, house, waning, dwelling, haard, hearth. 



Fris. suffix, urn. "This occurs also in Holstein and part of Sles- 

 wic, in Danish islands Sylt and Pohr, and in the Frisian colony 

 in Yorkshire." Taylor, scil. in Holderness. 



Lat. domus, casa, domicilium, tectum, hahitatio. 



It. domicilio, abita%ione, allergo, dimora. 



Sp. domicilio, casa propria, residencia, morada. 



Port, domicilio, casa, residencia, morada. 



Fr. domicile, maison, foyer, cJie% soi : hameau and hamac, may 

 hsve come from the Northmen. 



" Gr. etjtiaSes,'^' Kw/^as, the h and the Greek k being most fre- 

 quently interchangeable. Sema, domo excipere, apud se condere." 

 Ihre. 



"KwfjLT], vicus, unwalled village or country town, a quarter 

 or ward of a city. Probably from Ket/x,at, kol/jlolo), c. f. Lith. 

 kiemas, a village, haimyn^s, a neighbour. Goth, haim.s, {-Mm, 

 home). The ultimate root of Ket/xat is the Sansc. qi (cubare). 

 Lat, quies, culo, cumbo, to repose." Liddell and Scott. 



The Celtic words are — Wei. cartref, home, abode, ti, a house; 

 Gael. dacJiaidh, teach, tigh (like Lat. tectum), house, habitation. 



" Ir. teach, tigh; Manx tie, thie, teagh; Bret, ti ; Gr. rot^^os, 

 Tei^Q%, reyo^; Lat. tectum, tego, to cover; Sansc. teg^ "Williams. 



'''Hem, domus, habitatio, is said by some to be derived from 

 hema, tegere, but it is more likely that hema is derived from hem, 

 as husa from hus^ Ihre. Wachter derives heim from heimen. 

 Ihre reverses this. Who shall decide when doctors disagree ? 



"Sam, a rich level pasture, West., a plot of ground near a 

 river; also hame, home." Halliwell. 



"Hame, home, a pure old word from the Saxon ham, used for 

 a place of dwelling, or a village or town." Brockett. 



" Home, the past participle of haman, coire." H. Tooke. 



Taylor remarks : " The suffix ham, which is very frequent in 

 English names, appears in two forms in A.-S. documents. One 

 of these, ham, signifies an inclosure that hems in, a meaning not 

 very different from that of ton or worth. These words express 



* et/xaO£S is not in Liddell and Scott's Lexicon, but et//.a, ttTOS, a dress, garment, 

 rloak, rug, cover. 



