Tuesday, March 30, 2010

hamlet

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. The name comes from Anglo-Norman hamelet(t)e; Old French hamelet, the diminutive of OF hamel, itself derived of OF ham from Germanic heim or Anglo-Saxon hām > home.

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