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-sam
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "sam"
German
Etymology
From Middle High German -sam, from Old High German -sam, from Proto-West Germanic *-sam, from Proto-Germanic *-samaz, from Proto-Germanic *samaz, from Proto-Indo-European *somHós. Cognate with English -some and Dutch -zaam. Related also to Old High German samo (“the same”) and sama (“similary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /za(ː)m/, [zaːm], [zam], (chiefly southern also) [s-]
- The prescriptive standard has a long vowel, but in practice both forms are common and widely unmarked.
- Apart from southerners with a generally devoiced /z/, some speakers devoice it when -sam follows obstruents, e.g. in wirksam. (Compare the suffix -sen, where this is the rule.)
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Suffix
-sam
- Used to form adjectives from verbs, nouns, and other adjectives; expressing similarity or the possession of a quality.
- Used to form adjectives from verbs; expressing the ability to undergo some action.
Usage notes
- The suffix is now of very limited productivity at most.
Derived terms
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Latin
Suffix
-sam
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse -samr.
Suffix
-sam
- used to form adjectives
Derived terms
References
- “-sam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Suffix
-sam
- alternative form of -som
See also
Emphatic suffixes are added to nouns modified by a possessive determiner to emphasize the possessor; to verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns to emphasize the subject; and to inflected prepositions to emphasize the object.
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse -samr, from Proto-Germanic *-samaz, a suffix form of *samaz (“same”).
Suffix
-sam
- -some; creating adjectives, mostly out of nouns
Derived terms
See also
References
- -sam in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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