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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gimmer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
gim-mer
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A ewe between one and two years old.

Etymology

From Middle English gimbyre, from Old Norse gymbr (“one-year-old ewe lamb”), from Proto-Germanic *gimrį̄ (“a yearling ewe-lamb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰyem- (“winter”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: gimbyre, gymbr, *gimrį̄, *ǵʰyem-

Inflected Forms

gimmers (plural)

Questions

What does gimmer mean?
A ewe between one and two years old.
Where does gimmer come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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