somer

somer (plural somers)

1. (obsolete or eye dialect) Summer.
   • 1853, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853‎:

     To the examples alleged by Richardson, in his Dictionary, add the following: "I se it by ensaunple In somer tyme on trowes; Ther some bowes ben leved, And some bereth none, There is a meschief in the more Of swiche manere bowes."

   • 1895, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)‎:

     In Scotland, that somer, was nothing but myrth; for all yead with the preastis eavin at thare awin pleasur.

• s'more, moser, meros, morse, smore, moers, Moser, omers, Morse, mores, mesor, Romes, Mores

From Dutch zomer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʊəmər/

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somer (plural somers)

1. summer

Inherited from Late Latin sagmārius (“having a saddle”), from sagma (“saddle for pack animals”).

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somer m (plural somers)

1. (dialectal) jackass

   Synonym: ase

• somera (“she-ass”)

• “somer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Old Dutch *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz.

sōmer m

1. summer

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• sommer

• sōmersch
• middesōmer

• Dutch: zomer
  • Afrikaans: somer
• Limburgish: zómmer
• West Flemish: zommer

From Old Dutch *sōmari, from Medieval Latin sagmārius.

sômer m

1. beast of burden, especially a horse
2. pack, case (which is loaded onto and carried by a horse)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “somer (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “somer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “somer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “somer (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II

• somere, sumer, summir
• zomere (Kent)

Inherited from Old English sumor, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsumər/

somer (plural somers)

1. summer
   • a. 1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:

     Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

• gossomer
• mydsomer
• Somersete

• English: summer
• Scots: somer, sumer, simmer, simer
• Yola: zimmer, zummer

• “sǒmer, n.¹”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• samer (Mooring)
• Somer (Sylt)

From Proto-Germanic *sumaraz.

somer m (plural somern)

1. (Mooring) summer