Heim's the German equivalent of the English word home. It's a common German and Norwegian suffix in place names (for example Mannheim and Trondheim), and may refer to: Heim, Norway, a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county Heim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada (In Norwegian place names the Old Norse word heimr's often weakened to just -um, -eim, -im, or even just -m. See for instance Bærum, Elverum, Modum, Sørum, Bjerkreim, Askim and Sem. The o… (More on Heim)