somdel
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Adverb edit
somdel (not comparable)
- Alternative form of somedeal
References edit
- Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Etymology edit
From som (“some”) + del (“deal, part, portion”).
Adverb edit
somdel
- somewhat, to an extent, in some measure
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Nonnes Preest”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- A povre wydwe, somdel stape in age”
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- part, portion, a bit, small amount
- Þer gooþ to waast þerof somdel. — Sidrak and Bokkus, 1500
- in ~: in this instance, in this case (transl. of Latin in hac parte)
- We hafe sent...oure breþere as of what maner I seyde, þai be redy, lest of þat þat we hafe ioyed, it be voyded in sumdele. — The Pauline Epistles, 2 Cor 9:3, 1425