Samen

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German[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaːmən/
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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle High German sām, sāme, from Old High German sāmo[1], from Proto-West Germanic *sāmō, from Proto-Germanic *sēmô, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

Samen m (genitive Samens, plural Samen)

  1. seed, grain
  2. semen, sperm
  3. (poetic, biblical) offspring
Declension[edit]
Declension of Samen
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Samen die Samen
genitive eines des Samens der Samen
dative einem dem Samen den Samen
accusative einen den Samen die Samen
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Descendants[edit]
  • → Japanese: ザーメン (zāmen)

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

Samen

  1. inflection of Same (“Sami person”):
    1. genitive/dative/accusative singular
    2. all-case plural

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kluge, Friedrich (1989) , “Samen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological dictionary of the German language] (in German), 22nd edition, →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

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