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Old English
Noun
sumeran
- alternate (possibly early) form of sumera, dative of sumer.
- 9th century, Benjamin Thorpe, editor, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle according to the Several Original Authorities Vol 1 (Original Texts), Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts (1861), page 370, 1113:
⁊ þæræefter to sumeran he sænde hider to lande Rotbert de Bælesme into þam castele to Wærham- And thereafter in the summer he sent Robert de Belleme hither, onto land, into the castle in Waerham.
References
- John Earle (1892) Charles Plummer, editor, Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel , Clarendon Press, Glossary, page 396: “sumer (1), sumor (2) sb.m.str. summer. [...] dat. -ere. 885A. 898A. 1045E. -era. 885E. 875*. 896A. (-eran) 1098. 1113.”