Noun: ham
Sample Sentences
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"I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared. [1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 165:]
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a little piece of ham for the cat
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She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil. [2012, Audra Lilly Griffeth, A King's Daughter, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like ham
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-West Germanic *hammu, from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).
2. Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Old Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shinbone”). Compare gammon and gam. See: Middle English Nouns '
hamme', Middle English Nouns '
hamme', Old English Nouns '
hamm', Dutch Nouns '
ham', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κνήμη'.
Verbs referencing "ham"
Ancient Greek Nouns
κνήμη, Old Norse Nouns
hǫm, Finnish Nouns
hamssi.