emmer

See also: Emmer and ëmmer

English

Spikes (ears) of cultivated emmer

Etymology

First used in 1908; borrowed from German Emmer (compare the obsolescent related German synonym Amelkorn, whence English amelcorn).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛmə(ɹ)

Noun

emmer (countable and uncountable, plural emmers)

1. Any of species Triticum dicoccum, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. [from 1908]

   Synonyms: far, farro

   Hypernym: hulled wheat

   Coordinate terms: spelt, einkorn wheat

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 9, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

     Emmer Wheat or Farro Emmer wheat, T. turgidum dicoccum, was probably the second wheat to be cultivated. It grew in warmer climates than einkorn, and became the most important cultivated form from the Near East through northern Africa and Europe until early Roman times, when it was superseded by durum and bread wheats. But pockets of emmer cultivation survived in parts of Europe, and emmer is now widely available under its Italian name, farro.

Derived terms

• wild emmer (Triticum dicoccoides, a hybrid of Triticum urartu and a wild goatgrass, such as Aegilops searsii or Aegilops speltoides))
• emmer-goose

Translations

Triticum dicoccon

• Armenian: հաճար (hy) (hačar), աճար (hy) (ačar), էմեր (ēmer), երկհատիկ ցորեն (erkhatik cʻoren)
• Asturian: escanda f
• Belarusian: двузярня́нка f (dvuzjarnjánka), э́мер m (émjer)
• Bulgarian: двузърнест лимец m (dvuzǎrnest limec)
• Catalan: espelta bessona f, pisana (ca) f, blat midoner
• Danish: emmer (da)
• Dutch: emmertarwe (nl) m, tweekoren n, emmer (nl) m
• Egyptian: (bdt)
• French: amidonnier (fr) m
• Galician: escana
• Georgian: ასლი (ka) (asli)
• German: Emmer (de) m, Zweikorn n
• Italian: farro dicocco m, farro medio m
• Latin: far n, alica f
• Persian: گندم دودانه (gandom-e dodâne)
• Polish: pszenica płaskurka f, płaskurka (pl) f
• Portuguese: farro (pt) m
• Russian: э́ммер (ru) m (émmer), пшени́ца двузерня́нка f (pšeníca dvuzernjánka)
• Spanish: farro (es) m, trigo almidonero m
• Turkish: gernik, kavılca

See also

• Appendix:Grains

Further reading

• emmer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• memer

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ēmer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambrī.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

emmer (plural emmers, diminutive emmertjie)

1. bucket (container)

Descendants

• → Fwe: mà-hèmêrè (via Lozi)
• → Xhosa: i-emele
• → Yeyi: ìhèmérè

Danish

Etymology

Perhaps from em, but blended with Norwegian myrja (“mass, ember”). Ultimately from Old Norse eimyrja (“embers”), from Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ, equivalent to eimr +‎ yrja. The form emmer seems to have been used originally as a singular, compare the variant emme (“ember”).

Compare Old English ǣmyrġe (“ember”) and Old High German eimuria (cf. German Ammer in dialectal High German).

See also Old Danish ildmørre (“glowing ash, ember”) and Old Danish myrje (“glowing ash, ember”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈæmər]

Noun

emmer (singular definite -, plural indefinite emmer)

1. (poetic) glowing ash, embers

   Tag Emmer til Røgelse og læg derpaa noget af Fiskens Hjerte og Lever og ryg dermed.

   Take embers for incense, and lay thereon some of the fish’s heart and liver, and fumigate with it.

References

• “emmer” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

emmer

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.mər/, [ˈɛ.mər]
• Hyphenation: em‧mer
• Rhymes: -ɛmər

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ēmer, emmer, emere, from Old Dutch *embar, from Proto-West Germanic *ambrī. Possible doublet of amfoor.

Noun

emmer m (plural emmers, diminutive emmertje n)

1. bucket (container)

   Synonym: aker

Derived terms

• melkemmer
• pedaalemmer
• putemmer
• wateremmer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: emmer
  • → Fwe: mà-hèmêrè (via Lozi)
  • → Xhosa: i-emele
  • → Yeyi: ìhèmérè
• Jersey Dutch: äämer
• → Aukan: embele
• → Caribbean Javanese: èmbèr
• → Indonesian: ember
  • → Petjo: ember
  • → Ternate: ember
• → Papiamentu: èmber, hèmber, èmer, hèmchi, èmchi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Emmer.

Noun

emmer m (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. emmer (Triticum dicoccon)

   Synonyms: emmertarwe, tweekoren

Derived terms

• emmertarwe

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

emmer

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

Anagrams

• remme

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch iomer (“always”), a compound of io (“always”) + *mēro (“more”) (from Proto-West Germanic *maiʀō).

Adverb

emmer

1. always
2. at least, in any case
3. at all costs
4. ever

Alternative forms

• immer

Descendants

• Dutch: immer

Etymology 2

Noun

emmer m

1. alternative form of ammer

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “emmer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “emmer (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III