Sumeran

sumeran Latin Etymology Mid tenth-century, possibly an early form of the name of the parish of Sombres, a hamlet 2 km to the Northeast, which oversaw Wissant, which did not yet have a distinct name.R. W. Southern, Ian R. Christie Essays in Medieval History Selected From the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society on the Occasion of its Centenary London, Melbourne, Toronto Macmillan & Company LTD 1968 67 The Relations between England and Flanders before the Norman Conquest Philip Grierson https://archive.org/details/essaysinmedieval0000sout/page/67/mode/1up In use perhaps as late as 1088, the year of the first attestation of Wissant as a reference to the town. The final -n poses a paleographical problem, but the MSS reading is supported by a 1337 plural form of Sombres: Sombrenes.Mediaeval Studies 1940 II Francis P. Magoun, Jr. An English Pilgrim-Diary of the Year 990 https://archive.org/details/MediaevalStudies/Mediaeval%20Studies%20-%20Volume%2002%20-%201940/page/n251/mode/2up 249 Proper noun la proper noun Early name for the town of Wissant. la 1874 London Longman & Co, and Trubner & co Memorials of Saint Dustan Archbishop of Canterbury William Stubbs, M.A 34. Adventus Sigerici ad Romam 395 https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10972579_000/page/522/mode/2up 78 Gisne. / 80. Sumeran - References