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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 393 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SOMMER , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, a girder or See also:

main See also:

beam of a See also:

FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor; if supported on two See also:

STOREY (equivalents are Fr. etage, Ital. piano, Ger. Stock)

storey posts and open below, it is called a bress or See also:

BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast-summer. The word is also spelled " summer,” and is the same as " See also:

SUMPTER

Sumpter,” a See also:

pack-See also:

HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse, Fr. sommier, O. Fr., saume, from See also:

Low See also:

LAT

Lat. salma, pack, See also:

BURDEN, or BURTHEN

burden, Gr. o-ayua, ahrrav, to fasten a pack on a horse.

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