Hamer

Meanings

1. A surname.
2. A placename for Hamer, near Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK.
3. A small city in Jefferson County, Idaho.
4. An unincorporated community in Williams County, Ohio.
5. An unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina.

1. Alternative form of Hamar (“a people of Ethiopia”).

1. A South Omotic language spoken primarily in southern Ethiopia by the Hamar people and Banna people, and by speakers of Karo.

Etymology

* 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.