sómt
Westrobothnian
Alternative forms
- somt
- såmt
Etymology
From Old Norse sumr. Akin to English some.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sumt/, /somt/
Pronoun
sómt f (definite sómta)
- some, much
- somta å faḷtje
- some of the people
- såmt fålk
- some people
- såmt vär bra o såmta vär semmer
- some (things) were good and some (things) were worse
Derived terms
- sómlistass
- sómlistassom
References
- Rietz, Johan Ernst, “sómt”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 698