samen

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Dutch

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Etymology

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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 *samanai (together), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (one, together). Compare also sommige and soms, from the zero grade of the same Indo-European root.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsaː.mə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: sa‧men
  • Rhymes: -aːmən

Adverb

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samen

  1. together

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: saam

Middle English

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Noun

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samen

  1. Alternative form of samoun

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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samen m

  1. definite singular of same

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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samen m

  1. definite singular of same

Old Dutch

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Adverb

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samen

  1. together

References

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *saman, *samanai.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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samen

  1. together

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Swedish

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Noun

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samen

  1. definite singular of same

Anagrams

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