samen

See also: Samen

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tsamen, a contraction of earlier tesamen, from te samen. Although not clear from the spelling, the ⟨s⟩ in the Middle Dutch word was pronounced as voiced /z/. That is, (te)samen was pronounced /(tə)zaːmən/, like the modern descendant tezamen and the related words gezamenlijk and verzamelen. The contracted form tsamen, however, had a voiceless /s/ because it was assimilated to the preceding /t/, creating an affricate. This affricate /ts/ was later simplified to /s/.

Middle Dutch samen derives from Old Dutch saman, from Proto-Germanic *samana (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”). Compare also sommige and soms, from the zero grade of the same Indo-European root.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːmən
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Adverb

samen

  1. together

Synonyms

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

samen m

  1. definite singular of same

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

samen m

  1. definite singular of same

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saman, *samana.

Adverb

samen

  1. together

Synonyms

Further Reading

Swedish

Noun

samen

  1. definite singular of same
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