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Sami

/ˈsɑːmi/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A male given name from Arabic, feminine equivalent Samiyah.
  2. The Sami people, collectively.
  3. Alternative form of swami.
  4. Any of the languages of the Sami people.
  5. A diminutive of the female given name Samantha.
  6. Relating to the Sami people of northern Scandinavia, or the Sami languages.
  7. A member of an indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Lapland.

Etymology / origin

Etymology tree Proto-Samic *sāmē Northern Sami sápmi Northern Sami Sápmider. English Sami From Northern Sami Sápmi, from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *źémijāˀ (“land”). Displaced native Old English Finn (the direct descendant is Finn (“person from Finland”)). More at Sápmi and Sami.

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