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Heim is the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
equivalent of the English word home. It is a common German and Norwegian suffix

Affix

An affix is a morpheme that is attached to a word stem to form a new word. Affixes may be derivation , like English -ness and pre-, or inflectional, like English plural -s and past tense -ed....
in place names (for example Mannheim

Mannheim

Mannheim is a city in Germany. With 327,318 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg after the capital Stuttgart....
and Trondheim

Trondheim

is a city and Municipalities of Norway in S?r-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. The city of Trondheim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....
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Heim is the German

Germany

Affix

Mannheim

Mannheim is a city in Germany. With 327,318 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-W?rttemberg after the capital Stuttgart....
and Trondheim

Trondheim

is a city and Municipalities of Norway in S?r-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. The city of Trondheim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....
), and may refer to:

Heim, Norway
Heim, Norway

Heim is a village and former municipality in S?r-Tr?ndelag county, Norway. Originally the municipality was a part of Hemne formannskapsdistrikt, but on 1 January 1911 Hemne was divided and Heim became a municipality of its own with 1 533 inhabitants....
, a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag

is a Counties of Norway in the area Tr?ndelag in Norway, bordering Nord-Tr?ndelag, M?re og Romsdal, Oppland and Hedmark. To the west is the Norwegian Sea , and to the east is Sweden....
county
Heim Peninsula
Heim Peninsula

The Heim Peninsula is located on the southern coast of Ellesmere Island, a part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canada territory of Nunavut. The Sydkap Fiord is to the west, and the Harbour Fiord is to the east....
, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

(In Norwegian place names the Old Norse

Old Norse

Old Norse is a North Germanic languages that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
word heimr is often weakened to just -um, -eim, -im, or even just -m. See for instance Bærum

Bærum

is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the List of cities in Norway of Sandvika....
, Elverum

Elverum

is a List of cities in Norway and Municipalities of Norway in Hedmark Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of ?sterdalen....
, Modum

Modum

Modum is a Municipalities of Norway in Buskerud Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vikersund....
, Sørum

Sørum

S?rum is a Municipalities of Norway in Akershus Counties of Norway, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway of Romerike. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of S?rumsand....
, Bjerkreim

Bjerkreim

Bjerkreim is a Municipalities of Norway in the Rogaland Counties of Norway, Norway. The parish of Birkrem was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....
, Askim

Askim

is a List of cities in Norway and a Municipalities of Norway in ?stfold Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Askim....
and Sem

Sem, Norway

Sem is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway.The parish of S?m was established as a municipality January 1, 1838 . According to the 1835 census the municipality had a population of 3,590....
. The old form has, however, been revived in some names - see for instance Austrheim

Austrheim

Austrheim is a municipality in the county of Hordaland, Norway. Austrheim was separated from Lind?s on 1 January 1910. Fedje was separated from Austrheim on 1 January 1947....
, Grindheim

Grindheim

Grindheim is a former municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway.It was created by the split of Bjelland og Grindum municipality on January 1 1902....
, Jessheim

Jessheim

Jessheim is a large village in the Ullensaker municipality in Akershus of Norway. In 2006, the population was 13,038. In 1998, the population was 6,400....
and Jotunheimen

Jotunheimen

Jotunheimen is a mountainous area of roughly 3,500 km? in Southern Norway. Jotunheimen is a part of the long Scandinavian Mountains range. The 29 highest mountains in Norway are in Jotunheimen, including the very highest - Galdh?piggen ....
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People

Albert Heim
Albert Heim

Albert Heim was a Switzerland geologist.Born at Z?rich, he was educated at university of Z?rich and university of Berlin universities. Very early in life he became interested in the physical features of the Alps, and at the age of sixteen he made a model of the T?di group....
(1849-1937), Swiss geologist
Aribert Heim
Aribert Heim

Aribert Ferdinand Heim was a former Austrian doctor, also known as Dr. Death. As an Schutzstaffel doctor in a Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, he is accused of killing and torturing many inmates by various methods, such as direct injections of toxic compounds into the hearts of his victims....
(1914-1992), an Austrian doctor and formerly one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals
Burkhard Heim
Burkhard Heim

Burkhard Heim was a Germany theoretical physics. He devoted a large portion of his life to the pursuit of his unified field theory, Heim theory....
(1925-2001), German physicist

Heim theory
Heim theory

Heim theory is a collection of ideas about the fundamental laws of physics proposed by Burkhard Heim, and further developed by Walter Dr?scher and Jochem H?user.....
, a collection of ideas about the fundamental laws of physics

Ernst Ludwig Heim (1747-1834), German physician
Ferdinand Heim
Ferdinand Heim

Ferdinand Heim was a World War II German general.Heim is particularly noted as being the "scapegoat of Stalingrad" to deflect criticism away from Adolf Hitler, who from the warmth and ease of Wolfsschanze had ordered the Stalingrad campaign and refused to permit withdrawal....
(1897-1977), German general (Not to be confused with Aribert Ferdinand Heim)
François Joseph Heim
François Joseph Heim

Fran?ois Joseph Heim was a France Painting.He was born at Belfort. He early distinguished himself at the ?cole Centrale of Strassburg, and in 1803 entered the studio of Vincent at Paris....
(1787-1865), French painter
Irene Heim
Irene Heim

Irene Roswitha Heim is a linguist and noted specialist in semantics. She was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and UCLA before finally moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, where she is Professor of Linguistics and Head of the Linguistics Section of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy....
, linguist, specialist in semantics

Fictional

Rick Heim
Rick Heim

Rick Heim is a fictional Correctional Officer and 'SORT' team member on the HBO prison drama Oz . He is played by Paul Schulze....
, a correctional officer at HBO drama Oz
Oz (TV series)

Oz was an United States television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by Home Box Office....

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