different between hem vs skirt

English

Etymology 1

A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /h?m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: him (pin-pen merger)

Interjection

hem

1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

Noun

hem (plural hems)

1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
   • January 8, 1712', John Dryden, The Spectator No. 269

     his morning hems

Verb

hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)

1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.

Derived terms

• hem and haw

Translations

See also

• ahem
• haw

Etymology 2

From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hemm, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian ????? (k?amel, “to press, wring”), Russian ??? (kom, “lump”).

The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjan?, or alternatively derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /h?m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: him (pin-pen merger)

Noun

hem (plural hems)

1. (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
2. A rim or margin of something.
3. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.

Derived terms

• touch the hem of someone's garment

Translations

Verb

hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)

1. (intransitive) (in sewing) To make a hem.
2. (transitive): To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
3. (transitive): To surround something or someone in a confining way.

   A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.

Derived terms

• hemmer
• hem in

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em.

Pronoun

hem

1. Obsolete form of 'em.
   • 1481, William Caxton, The Historie of Reynart the Foxe

     And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.

   • 1485, William Caxton, Paris and Vienne

     For eyther of hem mayntened.

   • 1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English

     ‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.

   • Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem all.

   • Except we make hem such.

   • 1605, George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston, Eastward Ho

     They go forth on Holydays and gather hem by the seashore.

Anagrams

• Meh, meh

Bislama

Alternative forms

• hemi

Etymology

From English him.

Pronoun

hem

1. Third person singular pronoun:
   1. he; she
   2. him; her
   3. his; her
   4. his; hers

Catalan

Verb

hem

1. first-person plural present indicative form of haver

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hem, from Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m/

Pronoun

hem

1. (personal) Third-person singular, masculine, objective: him.

2. (personal) The tagger in a game of tag: it.

Inflection

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hem
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

hem (plural hemek)

1. (biochemistry) heme (component of hemoglobin)

Declension

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hem, related to eimr (“vapor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

hem n (genitive singular hems, nominative plural hem)

1. thin layer of ice

   Synonym: skæni

Declension

Verb

hem (weak)

1. first-person singular present indicative of hemja
2. second-person singular imperative of hemja

References

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch hemd, from Middle Dutch hemde, hemede, from Old Dutch *hemithi, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþij?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hèm

Noun

hèm (first-person possessive hemku, second-person possessive hemmu, third-person possessive hemnya)

1. shirt, an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

   Synonym: kemeja

Etymology 2

From English heme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hèm

Noun

hèm (first-person possessive hemku, second-person possessive hemmu, third-person possessive hemnya)

1. (biochemistry) The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen; heme.

Etymology 3

A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?m]
• Hyphenation: hêm

Interjection

hêm

1. Used to express furious, etc.

Further reading

• “hem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hem/, [h???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /em/, [?m]

Interjection

hem

1. eh?, well well! (expressing surprise)

Related terms

• ehem

References

• hem in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hem in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronoun

hem

1. accusative/dative of hi
2. dative of het

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch hin, from Proto-Germanic *himaz.

Pronoun

hem

1. accusative/dative of si (“they”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English heom, from Proto-Germanic *himaz, masculine and neuter dative plural of *hiz. Compare þem.

Pronoun

hem (nominative he)

2. Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9–11.

   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

   • c. 1539, Murdoch Nisbet, The New Testament

     He prayis hem to lyue releg[ious] lyff[is] and to luk waraly for the cummyng of the lord.

3. (reflexive) themselves

Alternative forms

• heme, hemme, heom, heon, hoem, hom, home, huem, hum, ham, hame, him, hym, em, am, ?am

Descendants

• English: 'em, hem
• Yola: aam

See also

References

• “hem, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English hemm. See English hem for more.

Noun

hem

1. hem (edge of cloth or garment)
2. edge, boundary

Alternative forms

• heme, hemme, hemn, hemne

Descendants

• English: hem
• Scots: hem, heme

References

• “hem, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hem

1. Alternative form of him (“him”)

Northern Kurdish

Conjunction

hem

1. and

See also

• herwiha
• û

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hem

1. imperative of hemme

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Noun

h?m ?

1. home, house
2. hamlet

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hêem, heim
  • Dutch: heem, heim (possibly from German), -em, -hem, -gem (in placenames)
    • Afrikaans: heim
  • Limburgish: heim

Further reading

• “h?m”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?m/, [?h??m]

Noun

h?m m

1. Alternative form of h?m

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28

Pijin

Alternative forms

• hemi

Etymology

From English him

Pronoun

hem

1. he/she/it (third-person singular pronoun)

See also

Portuguese

Interjection

hem

1. Rare form of hein.

Romanian

Etymology

From French hème.

Noun

hem n (plural hemuri)

1. heme

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse heim < heimr, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/

Adverb

hem

1. home; to one's home

Noun

hem n

1. a home; one's dwelling place, as in a house or a more general geographical place; the abiding place of the affections.
2. a home; an institution

Declension

Related terms

• hemma

Derived terms

References

• hem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Persian ??? (ham).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hem/

Adverb

hem

1. and also

Conjunction

hem

1. both; and

English

Etymology

From Middle English skyrte, from Old Norse skyrta, from Proto-Germanic *skurtij?. Doublet of shirt. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Skoarte (“apron”), Dutch schort (“apron”), German Schürze (“apron”), Danish skørt (“skirt”), Swedish skört (“hem of a jacket”), Norwegian skjørt (“skirt”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: skû(r)t, IPA^(key): /sk??t/
• (US) enPR: skûrt, IPA^(key): /sk?t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

skirt (plural skirts)

1. An article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
   • c. 1907, O. Henry, The Purple Dress:

     "I like purple best," said Maida. "And old Schlegel has promised to make it for $8. It's going to be lovely. I'm going to have a plaited skirt and a blouse coat trimmed with a band of galloon under a white cloth collar with two rows of—"

2. The part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
   • 1885, Ada S. Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice, Chapter XI:

     The petticoats and skirts ordinarily worn are decidedly the heaviest part of the dress ; hence it is necessary that some reform should be effected in these.

   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League

     “It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!”
     Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.
3. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
   • July 27, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian no. 118

     A narrow lace, or a small skirt of fine ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.

4. A petticoat.
5. (derogatory, slang) A woman.
   • 1931, Robert E. Howard, Alleys of Peril:

     "Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt."

     "What d'ya mean?" I asked, taking a pull at the bottle.

     "Well, 'ere's us, two red-blooded 'e-men, takin' orders from a lousy little frail, 'andin' the swag h'over to 'er, and takin' wot she warnts to 'and us, w'en we could 'ave the 'ole lot. Take this job 'ere now--"

6. (Britain, colloquial) Women collectively, in a sexual context.
7. (Britain, colloquial) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
8. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
   • ca. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, sc. 2:

     here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.
9. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

Usage notes

• (article of clothing): It was formerly common to speak of “skirts” (plural) rather than “a skirt”. In some cases this served to emphasize an array of skirts of underskirts, or of pleats and folds in a single skirt; in other cases it made little or no difference in meaning.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (suk?to)
• ? Korean: ??? (seukeoteu)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: sgiort

Translations

Verb

skirt (third-person singular simple present skirts, present participle skirting, simple past and past participle skirted)

1. To be on or form the border of.

2. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

     An enormous man and woman (it was early-closing day) were stretched motionless, with their heads on pocket-handkerchiefs, side by side, within a few feet of the sea, while two or three gulls gracefully skirted the incoming waves, and settled near their boots.
3. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
4. To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something).

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Kirst, stirk

Middle English

Noun

skirt

1. Alternative form of skyrte