Hama

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

hama

Add: a natural covering, integument, membrane, skin, slough of a serpent :-- Inluvies secundarum hama in quo fit parvulus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 110, 61. Mǽdenlicum haman virginali puerperio, Hpt. Gl. 414, 50. Matrice cildhaman puerperio, utero haman, 436, 6. Seó nǽddre áwurpð ǽlce UNCERTAIN geáre hire ealdan haman, and bið ðonne befangen mid eallníwum felle, Nap, 35. Hér cóm in gangan in spíder (inspíder?) wiht hæfde him his haman on handa, Lch. iii. 42, 12. [N. E. D. hame. Cf. Icel. hamr a skin, especially of birds.] v. feorh-, fiþer-hama. hama