heim

• haim, hemmu, hei

From Middle High German heim, from Old High German heim, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Cognate with German Heim, Dutch heem, English home, Danish hjem, also Albanian komb.

heim n

1. (Gressoney) home

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛi̯m/

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• Rhymes: -ɛi̯m

heim n (plural heimen, diminutive heimpje n)

1. alternative form of heem

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

• IPA^(key): /haiːm/
• Rhymes: -aiːm

heim n (genitive singular heims, plural heim)

1. home
2. hostel
3. asylum

heim (not comparable)

1. home, homeward

From Heim (“home”). Compare Middle High German heime (“home, at home”, adverb), from Old High German heime, heimi (“home, at home”, adverb).

• IPA^(key): /haɪ̯m/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯m

heim

1. home, to the house; always as a direction, thus never in the sense of at home

   Am Abend komm' ich dann auch gerne wieder heim.

   In the evening, I like to get back home again.

• The adverb is used chiefly with verbs of movement, to which it is joined in spelling in infinite and sub-clause forms. (See derived terms below.) Uses independent from verbs are rare but not impossible. For example: der Weg heim zu Gott (“the way home to God”).
• The frequency of heim varies by region. It is a very frequent word in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, but is less common in central Germany and even quite rare in the north. These regions prefer nach Hause instead.

• “heim” in Duden online
• “heim” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): [heiːm]
• Rhymes: -eiːm

From Old Norse heim (“home, homewards”), the accusative form of heimr (“abode, world, land”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

heim

1. (towards) home

   Förum heim!

   Let's go home!

• fara heim (“to go home”)
• bjóða einhverjum heim (“to invite someone home”)
• sækja heim (“to visit”) (confer heimsækja)
• það kemur heim og saman (“that is correct”)

• heimur

• heima

heim

1. indefinite accusative singular of heimur

• Héïm (Eupen)
• heem, Heem (Southeast Limburgish, East Limburgish)

From Middle Dutch hêem, heim, from Old Dutch hēm.

• IPA^(key): /hɛi̯m/
• Hyphenation: heim
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯m

heim n

1. home
2. house

• heives

• hoes

From Proto-Finnic *haimo, borrowed from Proto-Baltic *šáimas. Cognates include Finnish heimo.

heim

1. tribe

• hjem

From Norwegian heim, from heimr, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, house, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), *tḱóymos (“settlement, dwelling”), from *tḱey- (“to settle, dwell”) + *-mos (“action/result noun forming suffix”).

heim m (definite singular heimen, indefinite plural heimer, definite plural heimene)

1. home
2. nursing home, hostel
3. world (rare)

From Old Norse heim.

heim

1. home

   Nå går vi heim.

   We go home now.

• heime

• “heim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɛɪːm/

From Old Norse heim, heimr, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Akin to English home.

heim m (definite singular heimen, indefinite plural heimar, definite plural heimane)

1. home
2. nursing home, hostel
3. world
4. Place of origin or belonging, similar to German Heimat.

• heime

Male given names:

Female given names:

From Old Norse heim.

heim

1. home

   No går me heim.

   We go home now.

• “heim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “heim” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

An accusative form of heimr (“abode, world, land”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz. Compare Old Saxon hēm, Old English hām, Old High German heim, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims).

heim

1. home, homewards

   Flosi var allra manna glaðastr ok beztr heim at sækja.

   Flosi was most cheerful of all men and the best to visit.

• bæta heim fyrir sér (“to make for one's soul's weal”)
• bjóða heim (“to bid one to a feast”) (confer heimboð)
• fara heim (“to return home, go home”)
• fara heim á leið
• sækja heim (“to visit; to attack somebody”)

heim

1. accusative singular indefinite of heimr m

• heimboð

• Icelandic: heim
• Faroese: heim
• Norwegian Nynorsk: heim
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: heim
• Swedish: hem
• Danish: hjem
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hjem

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “heim”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

heim

1. rare form of hein