English

Proper noun

Sams

1. plural of Sam

Proper noun

Sams

1. A diminutive of the female given name Samantha, a variant of Sam.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Samuel, a variant of Sam.

English

Noun

sams

1. plural of sam

Anagrams

• ASMS mass, Mass, Mass.

Latvian

Sams

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *šamas, from a stem *šam-, from Proto-Indo-European *kam- ‎(“stick, wood”). The semantic change (“wood” > “fish”) is due to resemblance between wels catfish, especially when asleep in water, and pieces of wood. Cognates include Lithuanian šãmas, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian сом ‎(som), Czech sumec (Old Czech som), Polish sum, Ancient Greek κάμαξ ‎(kámax, “pile, stake”) (compare Greek καμάκι ‎(kamáki, “spear, harpoon”)).^[1]

Noun

sams m (1st declension)

1. wels catfish, sheatfish (a scaleless freshwater catfish, Silurus glanis)

   puiši zivis šauda, saķēruši sirmu samu: liels kā teliņš, melns kā velniņš, plata mute, garas ūsas‎ ― the boys shot the fish, (they had) caught a gray catfish: big as a little calf, black as the devil, wide mouth, long whiskers

Declension

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “sams”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7