different between summit vs summet

English

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English somete, from early Middle French somete, from Old French sommette, somet (compare modern French sommet), a diminutive of som (“highest part, top of a hill”), from Latin summum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?m??t, IPA^(key): /?s?m?t/
• Homophone: summat (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -?m?t

Noun

summit (plural summits)

1. (countable) A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain.

   In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.

2. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.

   They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

Usage notes

Colloquially summit is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a summit, such as the South Summit of Mount Everest. These are distinguished by topographic prominence as subsummits (low prominence) or independent summits (high prominence).

Synonyms

• (peak, top of mountain): acme, apex, peak, zenith

Derived terms

• subsummit
• Summit County
• summiteer

Translations

Verb

summit (third-person singular simple present summits, present participle summiting or summitting, simple past and past participle summited or summitted)

1. (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
   • 2012, Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic, vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:

     Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *summit, *sumwit, *sumwiht, variant of sum wiht, som wiht (“some thing”, literally “some wight”). More at some, wight.

Alternative forms

• sommit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mit/

Pronoun

summit

1. (Northern England, East Midlands) Something

Anagrams

• mutism

Italian

Noun

summit m (invariable)

1. summit (gathering of leaders)

   Synonyms: vertice, conferenza

Swedish

Verb

summit

1. supine of simma. (strong inflection)

Anagrams

• mutism

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English summit.

Noun

summit

1. summit

References

• ?nvestitsiä Summit?

English

Pronoun

summet

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat
   • 1805, R. Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, 105

     The langer they gaze, still the mair they may wonder,

     And aye, as they wonder, may fin summet new.

Adverb

summet (not comparable)

1. (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat

German

Verb

summet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of summen

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of verb) summa

Pronunciation

Noun

summet n

1. definite singular of sum (Etymology 2)

Verb

summet

1. inflection of summe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

summet n

1. definite singular of sum (Etymology 2)