sams

See also: Sams and SAMs

English

Noun

sams

1. plural of sam

Anagrams

• ASMS, ASMs, MSAs, Mass, Mass., SMSA, mass

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Latvian

Sams

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Baltic *šamas, from a stem *šam-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“stick, wood”). The semantic change (“wood” > “fish”) is due to resemblance between wels catfish, especially when asleep in water, and pieces of wood. Cognates include Lithuanian šãmas, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Bulgarian сом (som), Czech sumec (Old Czech som), Polish sum, Ancient Greek κάμαξ (kámax, “pile, stake”) (compare Greek καμάκι (kamáki, “spear, harpoon”)).

Noun

sams m (1st declension)

1. wels catfish, sheatfish (a scaleless freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis)

   puiši zivis šauda, saķēruši sirmu samu: liels kā teliņš, melns kā velniņš, plata mute, garas ūsas ― the boys shot the fish, (they had) caught a gray catfish: big as a little calf, black as the devil, wide mouth, long whiskers

Declension

Declension of sams (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sams	sami
accusative (akuzatīvs)	samu	samus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	sama	samu
dative (datīvs)	samam	samiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	samu	samiem
locative (lokatīvs)	samā	samos
vocative (vokatīvs)	sam	sami