An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/heim

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Heim

An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, H
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry heim.

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2518751An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, H — heimJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

-heim, adverb, from Middle High German and Old High German heim, accusative singular, ‘home(wards),’ and Middle High German and Old High German heime, dative singular, ‘at home’; in the other dialects, except Gothic, the respective substantives in the cases mentioned are likewise used adverbially in the same sense. For further references compare Weile.