noun, masculine/a.mo/plural: hameaux
hamlet
“J’habite dans la cité, moi, mais mon ami-ci habite dans le hameau.” — I live in the city, but my friend here lives in the hamlet.
Synonyms: bourgade, village
Related: écohameau
Inherited from Middle French hamel, from Old French hamel (“hamlet”), diminutive of ham (“small village”), from Frankish *haim (“village, home”), from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“village, home”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from *tḱey-. Cognate with Old High German heim (“village, home”), Old English hām (“village, home”). More at home.