Meaning

noun a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer

noun the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula

adjective same in identity

originFrom Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or Old English same, sama (“same”) in the phrase swā same (swā) (“in like manner, in the same way (as)”), both from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”), from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”). Doublet of some and -some. Cognates Cognate with Scots samin (“same, like, together”), Dutch samen (“together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma…

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