Hamer.
A surname.
Meaning & usage
A surname.
A placename for Hamer, near Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK.
A small city in Jefferson County, Idaho.
An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio.
An unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina.
Where this word comes from
* As an English surname, from the place in Lancashire, from Old English hamor (“cliff”), apparently a rare use instead of the sense for "hammer" (compare Old Norse hamarr (“stone, cliff”). * As an English surname of Norman origin, variant of Amer. * As a Dutch surname, from hamer (“hammer”). * As a German and Jewish surname, variant of the noun Hammer (“hammer”), with several Slavic derivatives.
A South Omotic language spoken primarily in southern Ethiopia by the Hamar people and Banna people, and by speakers of Karo.
Alternative form of Hamar (“a people of Ethiopia”).
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