sumor

Latin

Verb

sūmor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of sūmō

Old English

Alternative forms

• sumer, sumur

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sumar, see also Old Saxon sumar, Old High German sumar, Old Norse sumar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.mor/

Noun

sumor m

1. summer
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     ...þis ēalond hafað myċele lengran dagas on sumera, ⁊ swā ēac nihta on wintra, þonne ðā sūðdǣlas middanġeardes.

     ...this island has much longer days in the summer, and equally longer nights in the winter, than the southern parts of the world..

Usage notes

The dative/instrumental is usually sumora, most likely by association with winter, with which this word is often found in collocation.

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	sumor	sumoras
accusative	sumor	sumoras
genitive	sumores	sumora
dative	sumore, sumora	sumorum

Derived terms

• sumorlīċ
• Sumorsǣte

Descendants

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

See also

Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) · category
lencten (“spring”)	sumor (“summer”)	hærfest (“autumn”)	winter (“winter”)

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sumer”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.