hamelen

Middle English

FWOTD – 6 September 2017

Alternative forms

homelen, heomelen, hamlen

Etymology

From Old English hamelian, possibly from Old Norse (compare Icelandic hamla (“to maim, mutilate”)),[1] from Proto-Germanic *hamalōną, *hamlōną (“to mutilate”), from Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“hornless; mutilated”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈha.me.len/, /ˈha.mə.lən/

Verb

hamelen (third-person singular simple present hameleth, present participle hamelende, hamelynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative hamelede, hamlede, past participle hameled, ihamled)

To maim, to mutilate.
- c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer; William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book II, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio clxxviii, recto, lines 960–964, column 2:
  For thus forforth I haue thy werke begon / Fro day to day, tyl this day by the morowe / Her loue of frendſhyp haue I to the won / and therfore hath ſhe laid her faith to borow / Algate a foote is hameled of thy sorowe
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To cut short, to truncate.

Descendants

English: hamble, hummel (probably)

References

“hamelen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 August 2017.

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[1] “hamelen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 August 2017.