Midsummer is the middle of summer, marked in many traditions. Midsummer's Day, a midsummer night, celebrate midsummer.
Confusingly it falls at the start of astronomical summer rather than in the middle: the solstice is around the twenty-first of June, and Midsummer's Day is the twenty-fourth. It is the biggest festival of the year in Sweden and Finland.
1nounmidsummerThe middle of summer, marked in many traditions.
“At midsummer, the sun barely sets in the far north of Norway.”
midsummer is a time of year.
Old English midsumor, mid plus summer. The reckoning comes from an older calendar where summer began in May.
Proto-Germanic
*midjasumaraz — midsummer
Proto-West Germanic
*midisumar
Old English
midsumer
Middle English
midsomer
English, today
midsummer
Built from
From Middle English midsomer, midsumer, from Old English midsumer, midsumor (“midsummer”), from Proto-West Germanic midisumar, from Proto-Germanic midjasumaraz (“midsummer”), equivalent to mid + summer. Cognate with West Frisian midsimmer (“midsummer”), Dutch midzomer (“midsummer”), German Mittsommer (“midsummer”), Danish midsommer (“midsummer”), Swedish midsommar (“midsummer”), Icelandic miðsumar (“midsummer”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA