Sumeran
See also: sumeran
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Mid tenth-century, possibly an early form of the name of the parish of Sombres, a hamlet 2 km to the Northeast, which oversaw Wissant, which did not yet have a distinct name.[1] In use perhaps as late as 1088, the year of the first attestation of Wissant as a reference to the town. The final -n poses a paleographical problem, but the MSS reading is supported by a 1337 plural form of Sombres: Sombrenes.[2]
Proper noun edit
Sumeran
- Early name for the town of Wissant.
- 1874, William Stubbs, M.A, editor, Memorials of Saint Dustan Archbishop of Canterbury, London: Longman & Co, and Trubner & co, 34. Adventus Sigerici ad Romam, page 395:
- 78 Gisne. / 80. Sumeran
References edit
- ^ Philip Grierson (1968) R. W. Southern, Ian R. Christie, editor, Essays in Medieval History […] , London, Melbourne, Toronto: Macmillan & Company LTD, The Relations between England and Flanders before the Norman Conquest, page 67
- ^ Francis P. Magoun, Jr. (1940) Mediaeval Studies, volume II, An English Pilgrim-Diary of the Year 990, page 249