sam

Ustw. ahd. (9. Jh.), asächs. anord., mhd. samen(e), got. samana ‘zusammen, gemeinschaftlich’ (ger. *samana-, s. auch sammeln), das zu dem unter samt genannten Pronominalstamm ger. *sama- gebildet ist.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, same”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.mɑ.nɑ/

Adverb

*samana

at one; together

Derived terms

*samanōną > *samnōną

Related terms

*samaz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *saman
- Old English: samen, somen; tōsamne, tōsomne
  - Middle English: samen, samenn; samen- (prefix)
    - Scots: samen, samin
    - English: sam (obsolete); same (dialectal)
- Old Frisian: samin, semin; tō samene, tō semine
  - Saterland Frisian: tousommen
- Old Saxon: saman; te samne, tesamna
  - Middle Low German: samen
    - German Low German: tosamen
- Old Dutch: saman, samon; te saman
  - Middle Dutch: te samen, tesamen
    - Dutch: tsamen, samen, saam, tezamen
      - Afrikaans: saam
- Old High German: saman; zi samane, zisamane
  - Middle High German: samen; ze samene, ze samen
    - German: sammen; zusammen
    - Luxembourgish: zesummen
Old Norse: saman; til samans
- Icelandic: saman; til samans
- Faroese: saman
- Norwegian:
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: saman
  - Norwegian Bokmål: sammen
- Old Swedish: saman; til saman, til samans
  - Swedish: samman; tillsamman, tillsammans
- Danish: sammen
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰 (samana)