Sym
Middle English
Etymology
Proper noun
Sym
- 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
Declension
Declension of Sym
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Sym |
| genitive | Symu |
| dative | Symowi |
| accusative | Sym |
| instrumental | Symem |
| locative | Symie |
| vocative | Symie |
Proper noun
Sym m pers
- a male surname
Declension
Declension of Sym
Proper noun
Sym f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Derived terms
- Symowa
- Symówna
See also
- Appendix:Polish surnames
Further reading
- Sym in Polish dictionaries at PWN