Hammer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Shortened West Ham + -er, with a pun on hammer.
Noun
[edit]Hammer (plural Hammers)
- (soccer) someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Proper noun
[edit]Hammer
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Hammer is the 1,661st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 21,709 individuals. Hammer is most common among White (92.82%) individuals.
Derived terms
[edit]Danish
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Hammer
- a surname from English.
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle High German hamer, from Old High German hamar, from Proto-West Germanic *hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱmoros, from *h₂éḱmō (“stone”).
Compare Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, English hammer, West Frisian hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare.
Noun
[edit]Hammer m (strong, genitive Hammers, plural Hämmer or Hammer, diminutive Hämmerchen n or Hämmerlein n)
- hammer, mallet
- Synonym: (regional) Mottek
- Er schlug sich mit dem Hammer auf den Daumen.
- He hit his thumb with the hammer.
- (informal) sensation, something extraordinary (be it positive or negative)
- Die Entlassung des Ministers war ein Hammer.
- The minister's dismissal was a sensation.
- Ihr seid der Hammer!
- You all are awesome!
- (sports) a hard shot, slam
- Der Torwart parierte einen Hammer von der Strafraumgrenze.
- The keeper saved a hard shot from the 18-yard line.
Usage notes
[edit]- The unchanged plural Hammer is usual (perhaps even predominant) in the figurative senses 2 and 3. It also occurs in the concrete sense “hammer”, but this may be considered nonstandard.
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]Hammer m (strong, genitive Hammers, plural Hammer, feminine Hammerin)
- someone from the city of Hamm
Declension
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Hammer (indeclinable, no predicative form)
- (relational) of Hamm
Usage notes
[edit]- Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.
Further reading
[edit]Pennsylvania German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German hamer, from Old High German hamar. Compare German Hammer, Dutch hamer, English hammer.
Noun
[edit]Hammer m (plural Hammer, second plural Hemmer)
- English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Football (soccer)
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- Danish surnames
- Danish surnames from English
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:German/amɐ
- Rhymes:German/amɐ/2 syllables
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German terms with usage examples
- German informal terms
- de:Sports
- German terms suffixed with -er
- German adjectives
- German uncomparable adjectives
- German adjectives without predicate
- German relational adjectives
- German indeclinable adjectives
- de:Tools
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Middle High German
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Middle High German
- Pennsylvania German terms inherited from Old High German
- Pennsylvania German terms derived from Old High German
- Pennsylvania German lemmas
- Pennsylvania German nouns
- Pennsylvania German masculine nouns