Hamlin Gold (Part 2)

My previous post involving a video of Olympic Champion Charles Hamlin, came to me just as I was about to watch a "Cure" (Rock Group) video while following a lead for another potential post.  One of the things that occurred to me was the surname "Hamlin" is an addition to the "Pig/Hog/Fat/Ham/Pork..." pattern-cluster that has been occurring over the past couple of weeks. Note the etymology:

ham (n.1) "meat of a hog's hind leg used for food," 1630s, from Old English hamm "hollow or bend of the knee," from Proto-Germanic *hamma- (cf. Old Norse höm, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch hamme, Old High German hamma), from PIE *konemo- "shin bone" (cf. Greek kneme "calf of the leg," Old Irishcnaim "bone"). Ham-fisted (1928) was originally in reference to pilots who were heavy on the controls, as was ham-handed (by 1918). With hammen ifalden "with folded hams" was a Middle English way of saying "kneeling."ham (n.2) "overacting inferior performer," 1882, American English, apparently a shortening of hamfatter (1880) "actor of low grade," said since at least 1889 to be from an old minstrel show song, "The Ham-fat Man" (1863). The song, a black-face number, has nothing to do with acting, so the connection must be with the quality of acting in minstrel shows, where the song was popular. Ham also had a sports slang sense of "incompetent pugilist" circa 1888, perhaps from ham-fisted. The notion of "amateurish" led to the sense of "amateur radio operator" (1919). The verb in the performance sense is first recorded 1933. As an adjective in this sense by 1935.

When considering the last sentence of the first definition above re:

With hammen ifalden "with folded hams" was a Middle English way of saying "kneeling."

this becomes an addition to the "Neil/Neal/Nial/kneel..."pattern-cluster.

On checking out various sources in regards to the etymology of the surname Hamlin, I get differing results-- home and farm.  Of course Ham does sound a bit like Home. Note the etymology:

home (n.) Old English ham "dwelling, house, estate, village," from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (cf. Old Frisian hem "home, village," Old Norse heimr "residence, world," heima "home," Danish hjem, Middle Dutch heem, German heim "home," Gothic haims "village"), from PIE root *tkei- "to settle, dwell, be home" (cf. Sanskrit kseti "abides, dwells," Armenian shen "inhabited," Greek kome, Lithuanian kaimas "village;" Old Church Slavonic semija "domestic servants"). 

Keep in mind that "Hams" is another slang for "Tush"... which brings us now to the inner twin world's reason for coming out and communicating to us here and now-- to promote the TUSSH.  Simply key in TUSSH to this blogs search box and you'll soon get the drift... of a home that's also a farm.