Where does “summerhouse” come from?
summerhouse (English) comes from English Summer, from English sum, from Khmer ស, from Chinese 蘇, from English Sue, from Middle English seuen, from Anglo-Norman suer, from Old French sivre — to follow; to see; to say.
summerhouse (English): A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year
Definitions
- A house owned not as a primary residence and used as vacation home during warm weather months of the year
Ancestry of “summerhouse”, step by step
summerhouse traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English Summer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Summer | of modern usage, from summer, the name of the season, often given to girls born in summer |
| 2 | English | sum | A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation;... |
| 3 | Khmer | ស | white |
| 4 | Chinese | 蘇 | — |
| 5 | English | Sue | A Mary Sue |
| 6 | Middle English | seuen | — |
| 7 | Anglo-Norman | suer | nominative singular of seror; to dry |
| 8 | Old French | sivre | to follow |
| 9 | Vulgar Latin | sequere | to follow; second-person singular future active... |
| 10 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |