home

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The place where you live.

   Please deliver the package to my home.

2. 2
   adv

   To or at the place where you live.

   They stay home on weekends.

3. 3
   adj

   Relating to the place where you live or where you come from.

   He still visits his home town every summer.

4. 4
   noun

   A place where people who need special care are looked after.

   Her grandfather lives in a home for the elderly.

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Simplified etymology

Home is an ancient Old English word related to a Sanskrit term meaning “safe dwelling.”

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem. Cognates Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“h…

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