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# hame

«hame» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old Scots word for home: «brought hame the bull» means…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hame, no plural); adverb (brought hame) (old Scots use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hame is an old Scots word for home: «brought hame the bull» means brought the bull home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hame/#m1)

2) (old Scots use) «hame» can also mean towards home, as in «went hame». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hame/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old Scots tales, another way of saying home; the tales use it for the place a person returns to

### examples

- They brought hame the bull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hame/#x1)
- He went hame at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hame/#x2)
- The can was broken, so he brought hame little water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hame/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hame» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hame/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.