Xelebes
Little Blue Alien
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Xelebes, I love the etymology of words and obviously so do you, thank you for such an informative post. When I read the words, I could hear myself saying hymen for haeman and it all made a lot of sense suddenly. Ah, those light bulbs over the head that mark illumination...
That only works if you pronounce it like an Icelander of old (h-EYE-men). In Anglo-Saxon, it would be pronounced as h-A-mmen - the A as it CAT.
However, in the non sexual sense, it means to inhabit together or to share a room together - from the same root of home.