timmer

See also: Timmer

English

Noun

timmer (countable and uncountable, plural timmers)

  1. (Scotland) timber

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for timmer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Alemannic German

Etymology

From Middle High German timber.

Adjective

timmer

  1. (Uri) dim, dark

Derived terms

  • timmerchîdig

References

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɪmər/
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Etymology 1

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

Noun

timmer n, 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 carpenting
  5. (archaic) building material
Derived terms
  • jufferentimmer
  • maagdentimmer
  • vrouwentimmer

Etymology 2

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

timmer

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

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

timmer n, m

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

Inflection

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Alternative forms

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • “timmer (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Swedish

Noun

timmer

  1. timber, log to be used in construction
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