timmer
See also: Timmer
English edit
Noun edit
timmer (countable and uncountable, plural timmers)
- (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, Jedadiah 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."
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “timmer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Alemannic German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German timber.
Adjective edit
timmer
Derived terms edit
References edit
- 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.
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch timmer, from Old Dutch *timmer, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”).
Noun edit
timmer n or m (plural timmers, diminutive timmertje n)
- (archaic) building, construction
- (archaic) construction work
- (archaic) room, chamber
- (archaic) act of building or carpentry
- (archaic) building material
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
timmer
- inflection of timmeren:
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Old Dutch *timmer, from Proto-West Germanic *timr, from Proto-Germanic *timrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”).
Noun edit
timmer n or m
- building, construction (especially of wood)
- act of building
- material that a building is built out of
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “timmer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
timmer n
- timber, log to be used in construction
Declension edit
Declension of timmer | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | timmer | timret | timmer | timren |
Genitive | timmers | timrets | timmers | timrens |