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sumer

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
sumer, (-or, -ur), es; dat. a, e; m.
Summer
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  • Feówer tída synd getealde on ánum geáre ...

    Aestas

    is sumor,
      Lchdm. iii. 250, 10.

  • On ðone nygeþan dæg ðæs mónðes (

    May

    ) biþ sumeres fruma. Se sumor hafaþ hundnygontig daga,
      Shrn. 83, 33.

  • Sumor biþ sunwlitegost,

      Menol. Fox 473; Gn. C. 7.

  • Beorht sumor,

      Cd. Th. 239, 23; Dan. 374.

  • Sumer and winter; on sumera hit biþ wearm and on wintra ceald,

      Bt. 21; Fox 74, 23.

  • Swá háttra sumor, swá mára ðunor and líget on geáre,

      Lchdm. iii. 280, 9.

  • Gé witun ðæt sumor (-er,

      MSS. A. B. Lind. Rush.) ys gehende, Mt. Kmbl. 24, 32.

  • Ǽr sumor on tún gá

    before summer come,

      Lchdm. iii. 6, 1.

  • Yldum bringþ sigelbeorhte dagas sumor tó túne,

      Menol. Fox 176; Men. 89.

  • Sumur,

      Exon. Th. 354. 58; Reim. 67.

  • Ðonne on sumeres tíd sunne hátost scíneþ,

      212, 12; Ph. 209.

  • Ðú ðe ðám winterdagum selest scorte tída, and ðæs sumeres dahum langran,

      Bt. 4; Fox 8, 5.

  • Swá hé in swoloþan middes sumeres wǽre

    quasi in mediae aestatis caumate,

      Bd. 3, 19; S. 549, 30.

  • Wintres and sumeres

    in winter and in summer,

      Exon. Th. 200, 7; Ph. 37.

  • Ic (

    the fowler) nelle fédan hig (the hawks )

    on sumera, forðamðe hig þearle etaþ,
      Coll. Monast. Th. 26, 9.

  • Wiþ ðære sunnan hǽto on sumere,

      Bt. 34, 10; Fox 150, 9.

  • Ðý sumera fór Ælfréd cyning út on sǽ,

      Chr. 875; Erl. 78, 5.

  • Ðæs on sumera,

      896; Erl. 94, 1.

  • Ðý ilcan sumera,

      897; Ed. 96, 14.

  • Sumere,

      885; Erl. 82, 25.

  • Ofer ðone midne sumor (midne-sumor? cf. midne-dæg),

      1006; Erl. 140, 5.

  • Heó sý geworht ofer midne sumor,

      Lchdm. iii. 74, 11: Menol Fox 235; Men. 119.
Etymology
[O. Sax. O. H. Ger. sumar: O. Frs. sumur: Icel. sumar; n. (but earlier m.).]
Similar entries
v. mid-, midde-, middan-sumer. See Grmm. D. M. c. 24.
Linked entries
v.  sumor sumur.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sumer.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/29315.

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