Meaning

adjective same in identity

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

adjective closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree

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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