midsumor

• midsumer

From Proto-West Germanic *midisumar, from Proto-Germanic *midjasumaraz, equivalent to mid- +‎ sumor. Cognate with German Mittsommer and Swedish midsommar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmidˌsu.mor/

midsumor m

1. midsummer
2. the middle of the summer

• In cases other than the strong nominative singular, the prefix usually becomes the adjective midd and is inflected: on middes sumores hǣte (“in the heat of midsummer”). Middæġ (“noon”), midniht (“midnight”), and midwinter (“midwinter”) work the same way.

Strong a-stem:

• midsumordæġ m
• midsumormōnaþ m

• Middle English: mydsomer, mesomur, middsomere, midsomer, midsumer, missomer, missomere, mydsomyre, mysomer, myssomer, myssomere, myssomur, myssommyr
  • English: midsummer, Midsummer
  • Middle Scots: midsomer, midsymmer
    • Scots: midsimmer

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