An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/hämisch
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| This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry hämisch. | Random word Special:RandomInCategory/Annotated entries in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language |
hämisch, adjective, ‘malicious,’ from late Middle High German hęmisch, adjective, ‘close, malicious, cunning, perfidious,’ originally perhaps ‘veiled, obscure’; allied to Old High German *hamo, ‘covering, dress,’ mentioned under Hamen, Hemd, and Leichnam.