summer – English noun declension

English noun forms of summer

Noun: summer
Singularsummer
Pluralsummers

Sample Sentences

  • the heat of summer
  • Gradually, the end of summer hove into sight.
  • I'm going to the Gambia in the summer.
  • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs. [1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:]
  • A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’[…]‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’ [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • He was barely eighteen summers old.
  • She had seen not more than twenty summers.
  • O! craving heart, for the lost flowers
  • And sunshine of my summer hours! [1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:]
  • Here we are in our summer years / Livin' on ice cream and chocolate kisses / Would the leaves fall from the trees / If I was your old man and you was my missus [1986, Billy Bragg, “Greetings to the New Brunette”, in Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, track 1:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *s(e)m-eh₂-
4. Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-h₂-ór-o-der.
5. Proto-Germanic *sumaraz
6. Proto-West Germanic *sumar
7. Old English sumor
8. Middle English somer
9. English summer
10. From Middle English somer, sumer, from Old English sumor m, from Proto-West Germanic *sumar m, from Proto-Germanic *sumaraz m, derived from Proto-Indo-European *semh₂- (“summer”).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots somer, sumer, simer, West Frisian simmer, Saterland Frisian Suumer, Dutch zomer, Low German Sommer, German Sommer, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål sommer, Swedish sommar, Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic sumar; Welsh haf, Armenian ամ (am, “year”), ամառ (amaṙ, “summer”), Sanskrit समा (sámā, “a half-year, season, weather, year”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬨 (ham-), Middle Persian ḥʾmyn (hāmīn), Northern Kurdish havîn, Central Kurdish ھاوین (hawîn). See: Middle English Nouns 'somer', Old English Nouns 'sumor'.

Verbs referencing "summer"

German Nouns Sommer, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns sumar.