samen

See also: 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 *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”). Compare also sommige and soms, from the zero grade of the same Indo-European root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.mə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧men
• Rhymes: -aːmən

Adverb

samen

1. together

Synonyms

• bijeen

Derived terms

• saam
• samenhangen
• samensmelten
• samentrekken
• samentrekking
• samenwerken
• samenwonen
• samenzang

Descendants

• Afrikaans: saam

Middle English

Noun

samen

1. Alternative form of samoun

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

samen m

1. definite singular of same

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

samen m

1. definite singular of same

Old Dutch

Adverb

samen

1. together

References

• Altniederfränkischer Psalm 2

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *saman, *samanai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.men/

Adverb

samen

1. together

Synonyms

• ætgædere
• ætgæderum
• ætsamne
• gædere
• ġeador
• ġegædere
• onġeador
• samod
• samodlīċe
• tōgædere
• tōsamne

Related terms

• ġesam-
• sam-
• samod-

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “samen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swedish

Noun

samen

1. definite singular of same

Anagrams

• ensam, menas