Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-samazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_samaz
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017*somosthe sameсамъselfὁμόςsame, common, joint*sem-one, same*somHóssame, alikeसमsame equal, alike
suffixadja-stemforms adjectives, especially from nouns and abstract nouns, meaning ‘having the character of X, characterized by X, disposed to X, causing X, X-like’; equivalent in many uses to English “-some”From Proto-Germanic determiner*samaz, used as the second constituent of compounds, grammaticalized as an adjective-forming suffix early on Ringe 2017: 327. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *somHós, an o-grade derivative of *sem-Kroonen 2013: 425. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic самъ, Proto-Celtic *somos, Ancient Greek ὁμός, and Sanskrit सम.