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same

  • adverb
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Grammar
same, (always in combination with swá); adv.
Similarly, in the same way.
Swá same
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  • And eft Lǽdenware swá same wendon ealla on hiora ágen geþeóde

    and again the Romans in the same way translated all into their own language,

    • Past. pref.
      • ;
    • Swt. 6, 3.

  • Ðeós wyrt is swýðe scearpnumul wunda tó gehǽlenne, swá ðæt ða wunda hrædlíce tógædere gáþ; and eác swá some hió gedéþ ðæt flǽsc tógædere clifaþ.

    • Lchdm. i. 134, 12: Elen. Kmbl. 2553
      • ;
    • El. 1278
    .

  • Ðæt hié lufan Dryhtnes and sybbe swá same sylfra betweónum gelǽston,

    • 2411
      • ;
    • El. 1207: 2565
      • ;
    • El. 1284.

  • On Adame and on his eafrum swá some,

    • Cd. Th. 25, 24
      • ;
    • Gen. 399
      • .

  • Is ðæt fýr swásame on ðam wætre and on stánum eác.

    • Met. 20, 150 : 24, 33.

  • Deór efne swá some faraþ,

    • Exon. Th. 358, 30
      • ;
    • Pa. 53
      • .
Swá same swá
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  • Hú ne forealldodon ða gewritu swá some swá ða wríteras dydon,

    • Bt. 18, 3
      • ;
    • Fox 66, 1
      • .

  • Twá ðara gecyndu habbaþ nétenu swá swá men,

    • 33, 4
      • ;
    • Fox 132, 5
      • .

  • Ðǽr wífmenn feohtaþ swá same swá wǽpnedmen.

    • Ors. 2, 4
      • ;
    • Swt. 76, 27
      • .
Etymology
[
O. Sax. só sama, só sama só:
O. H. Ger. sama. só sama, só sama só
.]
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “same.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/26343.

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  • same, adv.

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