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

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SOMMER , in

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

architecture, a girder or

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BEAM
BEAM (from the O. Eng. beam, cf. Ger. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)

beam of a

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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

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

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

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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 "

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SUMPTER

Sumpter,” a

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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

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LAT

Lat. salma, pack,

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BURDEN, or BURTHEN

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

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