# home
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz. Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: hōm, IPA: /həʊm/
* (US) enPR: hōm, IPA: /hoʊm/
* (Canada) IPA: [hoːm]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophones: Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme
* Rhymes: -əʊm

### Noun

home (plural homes)
* A dwelling.
** One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
*** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John xx:[10], folio clj, recto:And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.
*** 1808, John Dryden, edited by Walter Scott, The Works of John Dryden:Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
*** 1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet Home!:Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
*** 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 132:If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries.
*** 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
** The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
*** 2004, Jean Harrison, Home:The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
    Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.
** The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
*** 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan‎, canto III:He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home; […]
** A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
    It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
** A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
    a home for outcasts
    a home for the blind
    a veterans' home
    Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
** (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
*** 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
    […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
** (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
*** 2007 January 10, Leslie Feinberg, “1976 WWP pamphlet found answers in Marxism”, in Workers World‎:The rights of modern transsexual women and men to live in the sex that is "home".
* One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
** 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches‎:Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.
** 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
** 1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home:
    I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.
* The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
    the home of the pine
** 1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets:
    […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]
** 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.:Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
** 2013 September 7, “Nodding acquaintance”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
* A focus point.
** (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
    The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
** (baseball) Home plate.
** (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
** (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
** (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
* (computing) Clipping of home directory.

#### Synonyms

* (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
* ((baseball) home plate): home base

#### Derived terms

* a house is not a home
* a man's home is his castle
* America at home
* an Englishman's home is his castle
* at home
* at-home card
* at-homeness
* away from home
* back home
* birthhome
* boys' home
* bring home
* bring home the bacon
* broken home
* cage home
* care home
* charity begins at home
* children's home
* Chinese home run
* close to home
* come home by weeping cross
* come home to roost
* cottage home
* detention home
* direct-to-home
* dishome
* don't try this at home
* down home
* down-home
* drive home
* eat someone out of house and home
* eco-home
* eventide home
* fall home
* family home evening
* far-from-home
* follow-home
* forever home
* foster home
* from home
* funeral home
* ghost home
* give someone a lift home
* go big or go home
* go hard or go home
* group home
* hammer home
* harvest home
* have a safe trip home
* hearth and home
* hit a home run
* hit home
* hit too close to home
* hoffice
* holiday home
* home advantage
* home-along
* home-and-away
* home-and-home
* home appliance
* home automation
* homebaked
* home banking
* homebird
* homebirth
* homebody
* homeborn
* homebound
* homebreaker
* homebreaking
* homebred
* homebrew
* homebrewed
* homebrewer
* home-brewn
* homebuilder
* homebuilding
* homebuilt
* homebuyer
* homebuying
* homecage
* homecare
* home care
* home carer
* homecation
* home child
* home church
* home cinema
* homecomer
* homecoming
* home computer
* home computing
* home console
* home-cook
* home-cooked
* homecooked
* home cooking
* home country
* home county
* homecourt
* homecraft
* homedawg
* homedebtor
* home defence
* home delivery
* Home Depot
* home directory
* home discipline
* homedulgence
* home duty
* home ec
* home education
* home equity
* homefare
* homefelt
* homefield
* home field advantage
* home fries
* home from home
* home fry
* homeful
* home game
* homegate
* homegirl
* homegoing
* homegroup
* homegrown
* home-grown
* home harvest
* home haunt
* home help
* home ice
* home improvement
* home in
* home inspection
* home inspector
* home insurance
* home invader
* home invasion
* home is where the heart is
* home is where you hang your hat
* homekeeper
* homekeeping
* home key
* homekill
* home-killed
* homelab
* homeland
* home language
* homelet
* homelife
* home life
* homelike
* homeling
* home loan
* homely
* homemade
* home-made
* homemaker
* home-making
* homemaking
* home market effect
* home movie
* home nation
* homeness
* home note
* home office
* home open
* homeowner
* homeownership
* home ownership
* homeowning
* home page
* home phone
* homeplace
* homeplanet
* home planet
* home plate
* homeport
* homepreneur
* homer
* homeroom
* home row
* home rule class
* home run
* homescape
* home school
* home-schooler
* home schooler
* homeschooling
* homescreen
* home screen
* Home Secretary
* homeseeker
* homeseeking
* home-set
* homeset
* home set
* homesewn
* home-sewn
* homeshare
* homesharing
* home shopping
* homeshoring
* homesick
* homesickness
* home-sickness
* home side
* home sign
* homesite
* homesitter
* homesitting
* home skillet
* homeskillet
* home slice
* homesourcing
* homespace
* home-speaking
* homespun
* homestall
* homestand
* home stand
* home state
* homestay
* homestayer
* homester
* home straight
* home stretch
* Homestuck
* home study
* homestyle
* home sweet home
* home teach
* home teacher
* home teaching
* home team
* home theater
* home theatre
* hometime
* hometown
* home town
* home training
* homevid
* home visit
* homewards
* homeware
* homework
* homeworker
* home wrecker
* homewrecking
* home zone
* homie
* homish
* in-home
* it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
* it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
* it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
* keep the home fires burning
* leave home
* Little League home run
* long home
* make oneself at home
* make yourself at home
* make yourselves at home
* manufactured home
* megahome
* microhome
* mission home
* mobile home
* mobile home park
* motor-home
* motor home
* Mountain Home
* multihome
* nonhome
* not at home to
* nothing to write home about
* not worth writing home about
* nursing home
* old folks' home
* old people's home
* out of house and home
* parental home
* pay home
* phone home
* pick up one's marbles and go home
* press home
* ram home
* rehome
* remand home
* rest home
* retirement home
* retrohome
* romp home
* rowhome
* second home
* sharehome
* show home
* showhome
* smart home
* something to write home about
* spec home
* starter home
* stately home
* stay at home
* stay-at-home
* stay-at-home dad
* stay-at-home order
* Sweet Home
* sweet home Alabama
* take-home
* take-home pay
* take-home vehicle
* take one's ball and go home
* take one's bat and ball and go home
* take one's football and go home
* the chickens come home to roost
* the lights are on but nobody's home
* the lights are on but no one's home
* there's no place like home
* till the cow come home
* 'til the cows come home
* tiny home
* touch home
* townhome
* to write home about
* tract home
* tumble home
* tumblehome
* unhome
* until the cows come home
* vacation home
* welcome home
* welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
* when it's at home
* workhome
* working from home
* you can't go home again

#### Translations

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### Verb

home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)
* (of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.
    The dog homed.

#### Related terms

* home in
* homing pigeon

#### Translations
### Adjective

home (not comparable)
* Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign. [from 13th c.]
    home manufactureshome comforts
* (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.]
    a home truth
* (obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.]
** 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].
* (sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.]
    Antonyms: away, road, visitor
    the home end, home advantage, home supporters

#### Derived terms

* home base
* home brew
* Home Counties
* home economics
* home farm
* home front
* home ground
* Home Guard
* home lot
* home market
* home movie
* home page
* home plate
* home port
* home range
* home remedy
* home rule
* home ruler
* home run
* home signal
* home stretch
* home theater
* home thrust
* home truth
* home turf
* home video
* homeworking, home working

### Adverb

home (not comparable)
* To one's home.
** To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
    go home
    come home
    carry someone home
*** 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches‎:He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
*** 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
** To one's place of birth.
** To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
    She drove the nail home
    ram a cartridge home
*** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […]
*** 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.
** (Internet) To the home page.
    Click here to go home.
* At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
** 1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    I'm certainly not the type to sit home waiting up for hubbie every night.
* To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
** 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
    I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
** 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]
** 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!
* (UK, soccer) into the goal
** 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
    Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
* (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
    sails sheeted home

#### Usage notes

* home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.

#### Synonyms

* (to home): homeward

#### Derived terms

* be home
* bring home
* come home
* drive home
* get home
* go home
* haul home the sheets of a sail
* out-and-home
* return home
* till the cows come home
* turn home

#### Related terms

* home and dry
* home and hosed
* home away from home
* home free
* homeless
* homely
* homeowner
* homestead
* hometown
* homey, homy
* homing
* parental home

#### Translations
### References

* “home”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* home in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “home”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Further reading

* home on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Mohe, hemo-

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈome/ [ˈo.me]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: ho‧me

### Noun

home m (plural homes)
* man
    L'home equí ye'l fíu María ― This man here is María's son
* person
* husband

#### Synonyms

* (person): persona
* (husband): esposu, maríu

#### Derived terms

* home del sacu
* ho

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan home~hom, from Latin hominem (“human”, noun).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɔ.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɔ.me]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔme
* Hyphenation: ho‧me

### Noun

home m (plural homes or hòmens)
* man
* husband
    Synonyms: cònjuge, espòs, marit

#### Antonyms

* dona
* cònjuge
* costella (figuratively)
* dona
* esposa
* muller

#### Hypernyms

* cònjuge

#### Derived terms

* home llop
* homenada
* homenejar
* homenenc
* homenera
* homenet
* homenia
* homenívol
* homenot

#### Related terms

* homenatge
* homenatjar
* prohom

### Interjection

home
* A term of address for a man conveying annoyance, impatience, surprise, disagreement, etc.
    Home, no sigues bèstia! ― Dude, don't be stupid!

### Further reading

* “home” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “home”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “home” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “home” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Classical Nahuatl
### Numeral

ho̊me
* (Codex Magliabechiano) Obsolete spelling of ōme.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From homo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhome]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: ho‧me

### Adverb

home
* humanly; in a human fashion

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *homëh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelian homeh, Veps homeh.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhomeˣ/, [ˈho̞me̞(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: ho‧me

### Noun

home
* mildew, mold
    Tämä leipä on homeessa.This bread is moldy(literally, “This bread is in mold.”)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of home (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homeeni
homeeni
accusative
nom.
homeeni
homeeni
gen.
homeeni
genitive
homeeni
homeideni homeitteni
partitive
homettani
homeitani
inessive
homeessani
homeissani
elative
homeestani
homeistani
illative
homeeseeni
homeisiini homeihini
adessive
homeellani
homeillani
ablative
homeeltani
homeiltani
allative
homeelleni
homeilleni
essive
homeenani
homeinani
translative
homeekseni
homeikseni
abessive
homeettani
homeittani
instructive
comitative
—homeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homeesi
homeesi
accusative
nom.
homeesi
homeesi
gen.
homeesi
genitive
homeesi
homeidesi homeittesi
partitive
homettasi
homeitasi
inessive
homeessasi
homeissasi
elative
homeestasi
homeistasi
illative
homeeseesi
homeisiisi homeihisi
adessive
homeellasi
homeillasi
ablative
homeeltasi
homeiltasi
allative
homeellesi
homeillesi
essive
homeenasi
homeinasi
translative
homeeksesi
homeiksesi
abessive
homeettasi
homeittasi
instructive
comitative
—homeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homeemme
homeemme
accusative
nom.
homeemme
homeemme
gen.
homeemme
genitive
homeemme
homeidemme homeittemme
partitive
homettamme
homeitamme
inessive
homeessamme
homeissamme
elative
homeestamme
homeistamme
illative
homeeseemme
homeisiimme homeihimme
adessive
homeellamme
homeillamme
ablative
homeeltamme
homeiltamme
allative
homeellemme
homeillemme
essive
homeenamme
homeinamme
translative
homeeksemme
homeiksemme
abessive
homeettamme
homeittamme
instructive
comitative
—homeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homeenne
homeenne
accusative
nom.
homeenne
homeenne
gen.
homeenne
genitive
homeenne
homeidenne homeittenne
partitive
homettanne
homeitanne
inessive
homeessanne
homeissanne
elative
homeestanne
homeistanne
illative
homeeseenne
homeisiinne homeihinne
adessive
homeellanne
homeillanne
ablative
homeeltanne
homeiltanne
allative
homeellenne
homeillenne
essive
homeenanne
homeinanne
translative
homeeksenne
homeiksenne
abessive
homeettanne
homeittanne
instructive
comitative
—homeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homeensa
homeensa
accusative
nom.
homeensa
homeensa
gen.
homeensa
genitive
homeensa
homeidensa homeittensa
partitive
homettaan homettansa
homeitaan homeitansa
inessive
homeessaan homeessansa
homeissaan homeissansa
elative
homeestaan homeestansa
homeistaan homeistansa
illative
homeeseensa
homeisiinsa homeihinsa
adessive
homeellaan homeellansa
homeillaan homeillansa
ablative
homeeltaan homeeltansa
homeiltaan homeiltansa
allative
homeelleen homeellensa
homeilleen homeillensa
essive
homeenaan homeenansa
homeinaan homeinansa
translative
homeekseen homeeksensa
homeikseen homeiksensa
abessive
homeettaan homeettansa
homeittaan homeittansa
instructive
comitative
—homeineen homeinensa :

#### Derived terms

* homehtua
* homeinen
* homettaa
* harmaahome
* homeallergia
* homealtistus
* homeenvihreä
* homejuusto
* homekoira
* homekorva
* homekoulu
* homemyrkky
* homepilkku
* homepöly
* homepölykeuhko
* homerihmasto
* homesieni
* hometahra
* hometalo
* homevaurio
* jalohome
* kuparihome
* lehtihome
* lumihome
* maitohome
* pronssihome
* punahome
* punahomejuusto
* sinihomejuusto
* vesihome

### Further reading

* “home”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

### Anagrams

* hemo

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* homem (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔme/ [ˈɔ.mɪ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔme
* Hyphenation: ho‧me

### Noun

home m (plural homes)
* human; person
    Unha sebe tres anos dura; un can tres sebes; unha mula tres cans; un home tres mulas (proverb)A hedge lasts three years; a dog three hedges; a mule three dogs; a person three mules
* mankind
    O home chegou á Lúa en 1969 ― Mankind arrived to the Moon in 1969
* man (adult male)
    Home casado muller é (proverb) ― The Married man is a woman
* male human
    Home pequeno fol de veleno (proverb) ― Small man, skin [bag] of venom
* husband
    Éste é o meu home, Xaquín ― This is my husband, Joachim

#### Usage notes

* Home is a false friend, and does not mean home. The Galician word for home is lar.

#### Derived terms

* homiño (“little man”)
* lobishome (“werewolf”)
* ricohome (“magnate”)

### Interjection

home
* man! (expresses surprise, or mild annoyance)
    -Es o campión do mundo? Contento? -Home!... ― -You're the champion of the world? Are you happy? -Man!... [Of course I'm happy, what kind of question is this?]

#### Derived terms

* ho

### See also

* persoa

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “home”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “home”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “home”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “home”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “home”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* “home” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *homëh. Cognates include Finnish home and Veps homeh.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
* (Hevaha) IPA: /ˈhomeh/, [ˈho̞me̞h]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: ho‧me

### Noun

home
* mould

#### Derived terms

* homehtua

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 67
* Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 37

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English home.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈom/, (careful style) /ˈowm/
* Rhymes: -om, (careful style) -owm

### Noun

home f (invariable)
* (computing) home (initial position of various computing objects)

### References

* ↑ home in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
* ↑ home video in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* ohmè

## Leonese
### Etymology

From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

### Noun

home m (plural homes)
* man

### Further reading

* AEDLL

## Macanese
### Alternative forms

* hóme, hómi

### Etymology

From Portuguese home, denasalized variant of homem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔme/, /ˈɔmi/

### Noun

home (plural home-home)
* man
    home-home di hoze ― men nowadays

#### See also

* mulé

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

home (plural homes)
* Alternative form of hom (“home”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

home
* Alternative form of whom (“whom”)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

home
* Alternative form of hem (“them”)

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

home (plural homes)
* Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure; meadow”)

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

home
* Alternative form of hame (“hame (part of a harness)”)

### Etymology 6
#### Verb

home (third-person singular simple present hometh, present participle homende, homynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle homed)
* Alternative form of hummen (“to hum”)

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.

### Noun

home m (plural homes)
* man
* husband

#### Antonyms

* mulhier

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

home (present tense homar, past tense homa, past participle homa, passive infinitive homast, present participle homande, imperative home/hom)
* alternative form of homa (non-standard since 2012)

## Old French
### Alternative forms

    see hom for alternative nominative singular forms
* homme
* honme
* hume
* onme
* ume

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *(h)omne, Latin hominem, accusative singular of homō. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.mə/

### Noun

home oblique singular, m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
* man (male adult human being)
* man (mankind; Homo sapiens)
** c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 476:O HOM de sancte vie, entent que signefieO MAN of sacred life, listen to what this means
* vassal; manservant

#### Coordinate terms

* fame (“woman”)

#### Descendants

* Middle French: homme
** French: homme, Homme (Man, genus Homo)
*** Haitian Creole: lòm
*** Karipúna Creole French: uóm
*** Louisiana Creole: n'homme
*** Saint Dominican Creole French: n'homme
**** Haitian Creole: nonm
*** →⇒ English: en homme
** French: on, l’on (formal)
*** → Esperanto: oni
**** → Ido: onu
* Norman: houme (France), haomme (Guernsey), houmme (Jersey)
* Picard: onme
* Walloon: ome

### References

* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (homme)
* Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX$^e$ au XV$^e$ siècle (1881) (homme, supplement)
* home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om)

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Noun

home m (plural homes)
* Alternative form of ome

## Old Occitan
### Noun

home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
* Alternative form of ome

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Denasalization of homem.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɔ.mɨ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɔmɨ, (Brazil) -õmi
* Hyphenation: ho‧me

### Noun

home m (plural homes)
* (nonstandard) Alternative form of homem