sem
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sem
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sem (plural sems)
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Bahnar edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bahnaric *ceː₂m, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *cim ~ *ciim ~ *ciəm ~ *caim ~ *cum (“bird”).
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sem
Chinese edit
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From clipping of English semester.
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sem
- (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) semester (Classifier: 個/个 c)
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Czech edit
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Inherited from Old Czech sěmo, from Proto-Slavic *sěmo.
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sem
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sem (clitic)
- …, neither (or not…, either)
- Julit sem láttam. ― I didn’t see Juli, either. [aside from not having seen another person]
- Én sem láttam Julit. ― I didn’t see Juli, either. [aside from other people who haven't seen her]
- not even
- Meg sem próbálta. ― S/he didn’t even try it.
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sem (paired)
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The word sem and nincs, nincsen (“it/there isn't”) are contracted into the forms sincs, sincsen (“it/there isn't, either”).
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Further reading edit
- sem in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Icelandic edit
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From Old Norse sem (“as, like”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).
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sem
- (with a noun phrase) as, like
- Hann var sem guð meðal manna.
- He was like a god amongst men.
- Hár hennar var hvítt sem snjór.
- Her hair was white as snow.
- Hann er sem nýr.
- He is as [good as] new.
- Vista sem…
- Save as…
- (with a clause) like, as if
- Svo virðist sem sjúkdómurinn sé arfgengur
- Is seems as though the disease is hereditary.
- (relative, with a clause) who, which, that
- Þetta er maðurinn sem ég hitti í gær.
- That’s the man that I met yesterday.
- Þetta er konan sem barði mig.
- That’s the woman who hit me.
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sem (weak)
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sem
- Alternative form of seem (“seam”)
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sem
- Alternative form of seem (“load”)
Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same, alike”).
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sem
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- Icelandic: sem
- Faroese: sum (from East Nordic)
- Norwegian Nynorsk: (dialectal) sem, se
- Old Swedish: sum, som
- Danish: som
- Norwegian Bokmål: som
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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sem
- inflection of semja:
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- “sem”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Tupi edit
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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sẽp, from Proto-Tupian *tẽp.[1]
Cognate with Guaraní sẽ, Sateré-Mawé wẽẽ-tẽp.
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sem (first-person singular active indicative asem, first-person singular negative active indicative nasemi, noun sema) (intransitive)
- to exit; to leave; to get out
- Asem 'y suí.
- I got out of the water.
- to move (to change residence)
- Synonym: îakasó
- (of a celestial body) to rise
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Further reading edit
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sem”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 441, column 1
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Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese sen, from Latin sine, from Proto-Indo-European *sene.
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- Rhymes: -ẽj̃
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sem
- -less; without (not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.)
- (followed by infinitive) without (not doing or not having done something)
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:sem.
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- (not having): desprovido de, falto de
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Serbo-Croatian edit
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sem (Cyrillic spelling сем)
Etymology 2 edit
From Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma).
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sêm m (Cyrillic spelling сêм)
- (semantics) the smallest unit of meaning
Further reading edit
- https://staznaci.com/sem
- “sem” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Slavic *sěmo.
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sem
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Slavic *esmь.
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sə̏m
Further reading edit
- “sem”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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