sammelsurium
See also: Sammelsurium
Swedish
Etymology
From German Sammelsurium, a joking Latinization of the Low German Sammelsur (a sour [considered inedible] mix of foods), from sammeln (to gather, to collect), used in Swedish since 1718.
Noun
sammelsurium n
- a hodgepodge, a jumble, a mix (of things without order), a mess
- 1871, Alfred Theodor Snöbohm, Gotlands land och folk, page 77:
- Den föreställning, som mången gör sig, att gotlandsspråket är ett slags förbistrad svenska eller en blandning, ett sammelsurium, af svenska, danska och tyska, den föreställningen är grundfalsk.
- The assumption, which many share, that Gotland's language is a kind of fractured Swedish or a mix, a hodgepodge, of Swedish, Danish, and German, this idea is entirely false.
- gibberish, galimatias (incoherent speech or writing)
Declension
Declension of sammelsurium | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sammelsurium | sammelsuriet | sammelsurier | sammelsurierna |
Genitive | sammelsuriums | sammelsuriets | sammelsuriers | sammelsuriernas |
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