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, Jedediah 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/

• Audio:

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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. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. 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

Strong neuter noun

	singular	plural
nominative	timmer	timmer, timmere
accusative	timmer	timmer, timmere
genitive	timmers	timmere
dative	timmere	timmeren

Strong masculine noun

	singular	plural
nominative	timmer	timmere
accusative	timmer	timmere
genitive	timmers	timmere
dative	timmere	timmeren

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	timmer	timmers
	definite	timret	timrets
plural	indefinite	timmer	timmers
	definite	timren	timrens

Derived terms

• drivtimmer
• liggtimmer
• rundtimmer
• sjunktimmer
• sågtimmer
• timmeravlägg
• timmeravverkning
• timmerbråte
• timmerbröt
• timmerdrivning
• timmerflottare
• timmerflotte
• timmerflottning
• timmerfora
• timmerhuggare
• timmerhus
• timmerhygge
• timmerkoja
• timmerkälke
• timmerkörning
• timmerlass
• timmerman
• timmersax
• timmerskog
• timmersläp
• timmerstek
• timmerstock
• timmerstuga
• timmersvans
• timmersåg
• timmertall
• timmertransport
• timmerväg
• timmervägg
• timmervälta

See also

• fruntimmer

Further reading

• “timmer”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• timmer in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• rimmet