different between zumat vs summat
zumat
English
Pronoun
zumat
- (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat
- 1839, Benson Earle Hill, Home Service; or, Scenes and Characters from Life, I.282:
- If I could a lugged back the oss, that mought a bin wuth zumat.
- 1839, Benson Earle Hill, Home Service; or, Scenes and Characters from Life, I.282:
Adverb
zumat (not comparable)
- (Britain, dialectal, obsolete) Alternative form of summat
Anagrams
- mazut
zumat From the web:
summat
English
Alternative forms
- sommat
- sumet (17th century)
- summut, zum'ot, summot (18th – 19th centuries)
- sumat, summet, zumat, zummat, zummet, zummut (19th century)
Etymology
Dialectal variant of somewhat attested from the 18th century. Joseph Wright suggested that it might be a contraction of "some that" in A Grammar of the Dialect of Windhill (page 78).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?m?t/, /?z?m?t/, /?s?m?t/
- Homonyms: summit (in some dialects)
Pronoun
summat
- (Britain, especially Northern England, Yorkshire) Something.
- 1809, Theodore Hook, "Killing No Murder" in The Sporting Magazine, volume 34, no. 202, page 185
- ...every gentleman tips us summat, we looks for it as natural as possible.
- 1825 October 12, Walter Scott, Letters (published 1935), IX.245
- They require the atmosphere of a cigar and the amalgam of a sum'mat comfortable.
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, I.i.i.10
- A man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things.
- 1929, John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent, page 129
- He were a-going to gie I summat for’n, but like enough it’ll be worth more to a gent like yourself.
- 1947, Thomas Armstrong, King Cotton, page 53
- Does he think I’ve been soaping up to the Governor or summat?
- 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, iv:
- ‘Got summat fer yeh here – I mighta sat on it at some point, but it’ll taste all right.’
- 2006, Robin Jarvis, Thomas, page 20
- Why go all the way to find summat that ain’t there?
- 1809, Theodore Hook, "Killing No Murder" in The Sporting Magazine, volume 34, no. 202, page 185
Adverb
summat (not comparable)
- (Britain, regional) Somewhat, to a limited extent or degree
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, I.i.viii.172
- It's summat-like to see such a man as that i' the desk of a Sunday!
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, I.i.viii.172
Anagrams
- Sammut
Finnish
Noun
summat
- Nominative plural form of summa.
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- what summative evaluation
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- what's summation gallop
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