Sumeran

Meaning

1. Early name for the town of Wissant.
   78 Gisne. / 80. Sumeran1874, William Stubbs, M.A, editor, Memorials of Saint Dustan Archbishop of Canterbury, London: Longman & Co, and Trubner & co, 34. Adventus Sigerici ad Romam, page 395:

Origins

Mid tenth-century, possibly an early form of the name of the parish of Sombres, a hamlet 2 km to the Northeast, which oversaw Wissant, which did not yet have a distinct name. In use perhaps as late as 1088, the year of the first attestation of Wissant as a reference to the town. The final -n poses a paleographical problem, but the MSS reading is supported by a 1337 plural form of Sombres: Sombrenes.