sumor

sūmor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of sūmō

• sumer, sumur

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.mor/

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..

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

Strong a-stem:

• sumorlīċ
• Sumorsǣte

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

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