timmer

See also: Timmer

English

Noun

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, 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

• belly-timmer

 

References

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

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German timber.

Adjective

timmer

1. (Uri) dim, dark

Derived terms

• timmerig
• timmerchîdig

References

• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪmər/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmər

Etymology 1

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

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

Derived terms

• jufferentimmer
• maagdentimmer
• vrouwentimmer

Related terms

• getimmerte
• timmeren
• timmerman

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

timmer

1. inflection of timmeren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

timmer n or m

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• timber

Derived terms

• timmeren

Descendants

• Dutch: timmer
• Limburgish: tömber, tömmer

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse timbr.

Noun

timmer n

1. timber, log to be used in construction

Declension

Declension of timmer
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	timmer	timret	timmer	timren
Genitive	timmers	timrets	timmers	timrens

Anagrams

• rimmet