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timber
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-Germanic *timr?, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *d?m). Cognates include Dutch timmer, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Norwegian tømmer, Old Norse timbr, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (timrjan, “to build”), Latin domus and Ancient Greek ????? (dómos).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?mb?/, (interjecting) IPA(key): [?t??m?b??]
- (General American) enPR: t?m?b?r, IPA(key): /?t?mb?/, (interjecting) IPA(key): [?t??m?b??]
- Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
- Homophone: timbre (for one US pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: tim?ber
Noun
timber (countable and uncountable, plural timbers)
- (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- (outside Canada, US, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
- (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
- the timbers of a ship
- Material for any structure.
- (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
- (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
Synonyms
- (trees considered as a source of wood): timberland, forest
- (wood that has been cut ready for construction): lumber (US), wood
- (beam used to support a roof): beam, rafter
Hyponyms
- (wooden beam used to provide support): crosstree
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
timber!
- Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
Translations
Verb
timber (third-person singular simple present timbers, present participle timbering, simple past and past participle timbered)
- (transitive) To fit with timbers.
- timbering a roof
- (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 5, p. 14,[1]
- For many heads that undertake [learning], were never squared nor timbred for it.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Book I, Chapter 5, p. 14,[1]
- (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
- (obsolete) To make a nest.
- (transitive) To surmount as a timber does.
Etymology 2
Noun
timber
- Misspelling of timbre.
Anagrams
- betrim, biterm, timbre
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
timber n (definite singular timberet, uncountable)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by tømmer
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *timr?, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“build, house”) (see Proto-Indo-European *d?m). Cognates include Old Saxon timbar, Old High German zimbar (German Zimmer), Old Norse timbr, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (timrjan, “to build”), and Latin domus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tim.ber/
Noun
timber n
- timber
- a building
- the act of building
Descendants
- Middle English: timber
- English: timber
- Scots: timmer, tymmer, tymer
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse timbr, from Proto-Germanic *timr?.
Noun
timber n
- timber; wood used for building
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: timmer
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wynn
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunj?, from Proto-Indo-European *wn?h?yeh?, from *wenh?- (“desire, wish, love”).
Alternative forms
- uuyn, wen, ?, ?ynn
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
- Homophones: win, Nguyen
Noun
wynn (plural wynns)
- A letter of the Old English alphabet, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.
See also
- eth / edh / eð / ð
- thorn / þorn / þ
Etymology 2
Noun
wynn (plural wynns)
- A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
Demotic
Etymology
A metathesized borrowing from the plural Aramaic ????????????????????? (*Yawnay?n), itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (I??w?n, “Ionian”) — compare the later Ancient Greek ?????? (I???n), ??? (Í?n).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w?j?ni?n/
Noun
???? m
- Greek (person)
Descendants
- Coptic: ??????? (oueinin) (Bohairic)
References
- Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 80
- ?erný, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 213
- Brugsch, F. Chabas and Eug. Revillout (1911) Revue Égyptologique publiée sous la direction de MM. Vol. XIII, page 107, Paris
Old English
Alternative forms
- wyn
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *wunnju.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wynn/, [wyn]
Noun
wynn f
- joy, delight
- the runic character ?
- the letter wynn: ?, ? (/w/)
Declension
Related terms
- wenian
- wine
Derived terms
- wynfæst
- wynsum
- wynl??
- wynfull
Descendants
- Middle English: wynne, wunne, winne
- English: wynn, wen, winne, win
- Scots: win
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