Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric. · A suture. · A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral. · The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
To put together with a seam. · To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. · To mark with a seam or line; to scar. · To crack open along a seam.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *syewH-der. Proto-Germanic *saumaz Proto-West Germanic *saum Old English sēam Old Norse saumrsl. Middle English sem English seam From Middle English sem, seem, seme, from Old English sēam (“seam”), from Proto-West Germanic *saum, from Proto-Germanic *saumaz (“that which is sewn”). Cognate with Dutch zoom (“hem, edge”), German Saum (“hem, edge”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål søm (“seam”), Norwegian Nynorsk saum (“seam”), Swedish söm (“seam”).
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