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sum

Pronunciation: /sum/

“sum” is an Old English word. Its 5 meanings in English:

pronoun

  1. some
  2. used to indicate a specific example of a thing: a, a certain, that
  3. some of (with another pronoun or article)
  4. one of (+ genitive)
  5. one of a certain number of things (+ genitive of number)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sum, see also Old High German sum, Old Norse sumr.

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