etymology of "hamlet"

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hamlet
c.1330, from O.Fr. hamelet, dim. of hamel "village," itself a dim. of ham "village," from Frank. *haim (see home). Especially a village without a church.

why is this significant to me? at one point, i used "hamlet" as a device to connote the paralysis of a protagonist when confronting the dilemma of falling in love and remaining detached (which, in a very abstract way, is the dilemma of hamlet; to "be" [here] or "not to be" [anywhere]).

but hamlet (as "a village without a church") can also be taken to represent "mililani" or "marsilani"; a suburban town without a real sense of itself.