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Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, a city north-east of Dortmund Hamm (Sieg) , a municipality in the eponymous Verbandsgemeinde in the district of Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate Hamm, Bitburg-Prüm , part of the Verbandsgemeinde Bitburg-Land, Rhineland-Palatinate
Hamm is the end of the Datteln-Hamm-Kanal; three ports are situated in the urban district: the city port, the canal end port of Uentrop, and the port of Gersteinwerk. The ports of Hamm are the second biggest canal port by freight transact, 1.4 million tons a year by ships and 0.5 million tons by train.
The word "hammam" (حَمَّام) is a noun meaning "bath", "bathroom", ... author self-published Strictures on the personal cleanliness of the English, ...
The second source of the surname Haimes is the common place-name Hamm, which derives from the Old English word hamm, meaning 'land in a river bend', 'river meadow', 'marshy land'. Frequency [ edit ]
The origin of the village's name has always been a matter of argument. [2] The village is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Alham. [3] The suffix "ham" is derived from the Old English "ham" meaning "homestead" or "hamm" meaning "meadow".
The modern word ham is derived from the Old English ham or hom meaning the hollow or bend of the knee, from a Germanic base where it meant 'crooked'. It began to refer to the cut of pork derived from the hind leg of a pig around the 15th century. [6]
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The name Ham comes from the Old English word hamm, meaning "water meadow, land in the bend of a river". [2] Ham gave its name to the seventeenth-century Ham House , home of the Trelawney family, nearby, and to the River Hamoaze .