hamel

hamel (third-person singular simple present hamels, present participle (US) hameling or (UK) hamelling, simple past and past participle (US) hameled or (UK) hamelled)

1. Alternative form of hamble.

• almeh, hemal

From Middle Dutch hamel, from Old Dutch *hamal, from Proto-Germanic *hamalaz (“mutilated, castrated”). Cognate with German Hammel. Further origin uncertain; perhaps related to ham (“bacon”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaː.məl/

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• Hyphenation: ha‧mel

hamel m (plural hamels, diminutive hameltje n)

1. wether, a castrated ram (male sheep)

• belhamel
• hamelbout
• hamelsoep
• hamelvlees

From Proto-Germanic *hamalaz (“mutilated”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑ.mel/, [ˈhɑ.mel]

hamel

1. broken, rugged

• hamelian

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “hamel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.