timmer

timmer (countable and uncountable, plural timmers)

1. (Scotland) timber
   • 1811-1813, Captain Charles Gray, Though Boreas bauld (song):

     Though no a bird can now be heard
     ⁠Upon the leafless timmer;
     Whate'er betide, the ingle side
     ⁠Can mak' the winter simmer!

   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume I (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     "Forbye," said the Butler, most irreverently raising his voice to a pitch which drowned his master's, "the fire made fast on us, owing to the store of tapestry and carved timmer in the banqueting ha', and the loons ran like scauded rats so soon as they heard of the gunpouther."

• “timmer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Middle High German timber.

timmer

1. (Uri) dim, dark

• timmerig
• timmerchîdig

• Abegg, Emil (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 18.
• Staub, Friedrich und Tobler, Ludwig (1881), Schweizerisches Idiotikon - Band III [1] [Swiss Dialect Idioticon (chidig)], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 149.
• Bachman, Albert und Groeger, Otto und Wanner, H (1913), Schweizerisches Idiotikon - Band XII, [2] [Swiss Dialect Idioticon (Timmer, Zimmer)], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 1802.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪmər/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmər

From Middle Dutch timmer, from Old Dutch *timmer, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”).

timmer n or m (plural timmers, diminutive timmertje n)

1. (archaic) building, construction
2. (archaic) construction work
3. (archaic) room, chamber

   Synonyms: kamer, vertrek, lokaal

4. (archaic) act of building or carpentry
5. (archaic) building material

• jufferentimmer
• maagdentimmer
• vrouwentimmer

• getimmerte
• timmeren
• timmerman

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

timmer

1. inflection of timmeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old Dutch *timmer, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”).

timmer n or m

1. building, construction (especially of wood)
2. act of building
3. material that a building is built out of

• timber

• timmeren

• Dutch: timmer
• Limburgish: tömber, tömmer

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

From Old Norse timbr.

timmer n

1. timber, log to be used in construction

• fruntimmer

• timmer in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• timmer in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• rimmet