some

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 395 words | Copyright

some †a certain; one or other; a certain amount or number of; also as sb. or pron. OE. sum = OS., OHG. sum, ON. sumr, Goth. sums :- Gmc. *sumaz :- IE. *sṃos, the base of which is repr. also by Gr. hamôs somehow, Skr. samá-, Av. hama- some, every. Cf. SAME. Comps. somebody, someone XIV, somehow XVIII, something OE., sometime XIII, sometimes XVI, somewhat, somewhere XII
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