Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of Scottish personal names).
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HOME. Also Hume, †Hoom. A common Border surname from the Berwickshire place-name, historically pronounced [høm, hɪm] now anglicised to [hjum]. Cf. John Home, author of Douglas, David Hume the philosopher. See E. C. Mossner Life D. Hume (1954) 6).
[For the alternative spellings see P.L.D. §35. The word is orig. ad. O.N. hulm, holm, an island in a river, flat land by a river.]
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