samo

See also:Appendix:Variations of "samo"

Bikol Central

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Pronunciation

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Hyphenation:sa‧mo
IPA^(key):/saˈmoʔ/ [saˈmoʔ]

Pronoun

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samô

(possessive, exclusive)1st person exclusive oblique pronoun:ours
Synonym:samuya

Determiner

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samô

(exclusive)1st person exclusive possessive pronoun:our
Synonym:samuya

Person	Number	Absolute (ang)	Ergative (sa)	Oblique (sa)
Length	Full	Short	Full	Short
First	singular	ako	ko	sakuya,sako,saako
plural inclusive	kita	nyato	ta	satuya,sato,saato
plural exclusive	kami	nyamo	mi	samuya,samo,kanamo,saamo
Second	singular	ika	ka	mo	saimo,simo,kanimo
plural	kamo	nindo	saindo,kaninyo,sainyo
Third	singular	siya,iya	niya	saiya,kaniya
plural	sinda	ninda	sainda,kanila

Cebuano

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Pronunciation

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Hyphenation:sa‧mo

Noun

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samo

sargassum;gulfweed

Esperanto

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Etymology

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Fromsama +‎-o.

Pronunciation

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Audio: (file)

IPA^(key):/ˈsamo/
Rhymes:-amo
Hyphenation: sam‧o

Noun

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samo (uncountable,accusativesamon)

same; the same thing

Galician

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cerne ("heartwood") andsamo ("sapwood")

Etymology

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Unknown. Comparesámago andámago.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key):[ˈsamʊ]

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “samo”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “samo”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “samo”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Gothic

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Romanization

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samō

Romanization of𐍃𐌰𐌼𐍉

Old High German

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Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*sāmō, fromProto-Germanic*sēmô, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₁mn̥. Cognate toLatinsēmen.

Noun

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sāmo m

seed

Declension

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Declension ofsāmo (masculine n-stem)
case	singular	plural
nominative	sāmo	sāmon,sāmun
accusative	sāmon,sāmun	sāmon,sāmun
genitive	sāmen,sāmin	sāmōno
dative	sāmen,sāmin	sāmōm,sāmōn

Descendants

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Middle High German:sāme,saume
- Cimbrian:zamo
- German:Samen,Same(now rare)
  - → Japanese:ザーメン(zāmen)
- Hunsrik:Some
- Luxembourgish:Som
- Vilamovian:zöma
- Yiddish:זוימען(zoymen) (<saume)

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

𑀲𑀫𑁄(Brahmi script)
समो(Devanagari script)
সমো(Bengali script)
සමො(Sinhalese script)
သမော orသမေႃ(Burmese script)
สโม orสะโม(Thai script)
ᩈᨾᩮᩣ(Tai Tham script)
ສໂມ orສະໂມ(Lao script)
សមោ(Khmer script)
𑄥𑄟𑄮(Chakma script)

Adjective

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samo

masculine nominative singular ofsama

Polish

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key):/ˈsa.mɔ/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes:-amɔ
Syllabification:sa‧mo
Homophone:samo-

Adjective

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samo

neuternominative/accusative/vocativesingular ofsam

Trivia

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According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),samo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 20 times in scientific texts, 14 times in news, 4 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 17 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 70 times, making it the 924th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

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^Ida Kurcz (1990) “samo”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page518

Portuguese

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(Brazil)IPA^(key):/ˈsɐ̃.mu/

(Brazil)IPA^(key):/ˈsɐ̃.mu/
- (Southern Brazil)IPA^(key):/ˈsɐ.mo/

(Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈsɐ.mu/

(Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈsɐ.mu/
- (Northern Portugal)IPA^(key):/ˈsa.mu/

Hyphenation:sa‧mo

Noun

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samo m (pluralsamos)

sapwood(soft, newer wood just under the bark)
Synonym:alburno

Verb

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samo

Eye dialect spelling ofsomos.

Puyuma

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromChinese沙漠(shāmò,“desert”).

Noun

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samo

desert

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Fromsȃm.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key):/sâmo/
Hyphenation:sa‧mo

Particle

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sȁmo (Cyrillic spellingса̏мо)

(denoting exclusivity)just,only,only just,merely,solely
Samo jedan ―Just/only one
Nesamo uči ―She just studies all day long.
Nesamo da je l(ij)epa, nego je i pametna! ―She's not only pretty, but she is also clever!
Ulaznica stoji samo 5 eura. ―The ticket costs just 5 euro.
Radi što god želiš, samo mi nemoj smetati! ―Do whatever you want, just don't bother me!
Samo, ipak sam zabrinut. ―It's just that I am still concerned.
just,keeps on
S krova sesamo cijedi! ―It just keeps on trickling from the roof!
(intensifier)just,only,if only (used to put emphasis on one's message, conveying mood or various emotions)
Samo nastavite tako! ―Just keeping at it! (literally, “Just go on like that!”)
Ma, naravno,samo nam je još to trebalo! ―Oh, of course, that isjust what we needed!
Samo mi nemoj reći da sve to nisi prije znao! ―Just don't tell me you didn't know this before!
Kad bisamo došao! ―If only you came!

Conjunction

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sȁmo (Cyrillic spellingса̏мо)

(denoting contrast and exclusivity)just,but,only,merely
Ova haljina je l(ij)epa,samo (je) preskupa ―This dress is very beautiful, but too expensive.
(expressing intent)just,only (=tek)
Govorimsamo da govorim! ―I am talking just to talk!
(dated, assuming a contradiction)just,if only
Uči,samo da nije uzalud! ―Study, if only it won't be in vain!