Sym

Middle English

Etymology

    Clipping of Simeon and Simon.

    Proper noun

    Sym

    1. a diminutive of the male given names Simeon or Simon, equivalent to English Sim
      • c. 1475, “The Hunttyng of the Hare”, in Henry Weber, editor, Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: Published from Ancient Manuscripts. [], volume III, Edinburgh: [] George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Co. []; and John Murray, and Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, [], published 1810, pages 281 (lines 49–54) and 287 (lines 187–188):
        “Parkyn the potter hase iij that wyll not fayll, / Short schonkes and neuer a tayll; / No kalfe so greyt, as Y wene. / So has Dykon and Jac Gryme, / So has yonge Raynall and Sym, / And all thè schall hom sene.”— [] Sym, that was balyd lyke a kow, / He seyd: “Syrres, Y arest yow now.”
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    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • English: Sim

    Polish

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Russian Сым (Sym).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈsɘm/
    • Rhymes: -ɘm
    • Syllabification: Sym

    Proper noun

    Sym m inan

    1. Sym (a river in Russia)

    Declension

    Proper noun

    Sym m pers

    1. a male surname

    Declension

    Proper noun

    Sym f (indeclinable)

    1. a female surname

    Derived terms

    • Symowa
    • Symówna

    See also

    • Appendix:Polish surnames

    Further reading

    • Sym in Polish dictionaries at PWN