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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sāmō
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sēmô.
Noun
*sāmō m[1]
- seed
Inflection
Masculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *sāmō | *sāman |
Accusative | *sāman | *sāman |
Genitive | *sāmini | *sāmanō |
Dative | *sāmini | *sāmum |
Instrumental | *sāmini | *sāmum |
Descendants
- Old Saxon: sāmo
- Middle Low German: sāme
- Old High German: sāmo
- Middle High German: sāme, saume
- German: Samen
- → Japanese: ザーメン (zāmen)
- Hunsrik: Some
- Luxembourgish: Som
- Vilamovian: zöma
- Yiddish: זוימען (zoymen) (< saume)
- German: Samen
- Middle High German: sāme, saume
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 79: “PWGmc *sāmō”