# timmer
## English
### Noun

timmer (countable and uncountable, plural timmers)
* (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
* (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 [Swiss Dialect Idioticon (chidig)], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 149.
* Bachman, Albert und Groeger, Otto und Wanner, H (1913), Schweizerisches Idiotikon - Band XII, [Swiss Dialect Idioticon (Timmer, Zimmer)], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 1802.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɪmər/
* Audio:(file)
* 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)
* (archaic) building, construction
* (archaic) construction work
* (archaic) room, chamber
    Synonyms: kamer, vertrek, lokaal
* (archaic) act of building or carpentry
* (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
* inflection of timmeren:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** 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
* building, construction (especially of wood)
* act of building
* 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
* timber, log to be used in construction

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | timmer | timmers |
| singular | definite | timret | timrets |
| plural | indefinite | timmer | timmers |
| plural | 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
* timmer in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* rimmet