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
- together
Synonyms
- bijeen
Derived terms
- samenhangen
- samensmelten
- samentrekken
- samentrekking
- samenwerken
- samenzang
Descendants
- Afrikaans: saam
Middle English
Noun
samen
- Alternative form of samoun
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
samen m
- definite singular of same
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
samen m
- definite singular of same
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *saman, *samana.
Adverb
samen
- together
Synonyms
- ætgædere
- ætgæderum
- ætsamne
- gædere
- ġeador
- ġegædere
- onġeador
- samod
- samodlīċe
- tōgædere
- tōsamne
Related terms
- ġesam-
- sam-
- samod-
Further reading
- Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
Swedish
Noun
samen
- definite singular of same