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Sami|ˈsɑːmɪ, sɑːm|
Also † Salme-Same; Saam(e, Sabme, etc.
[Lappish Sami (in earlier orthography, Sabme, Samek) of uncertain ultimate etym.; cf. also Sw. and Norw. Same.]
The native name of the Lapps; occas. sing., a Lapp.
This word is preferred to Lapp by scholars.
1797Encycl. Brit. IX. 572/1 The Laplanders call themselves Salme-Same, and Salmen-Almatjeh. 1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 390/1 They [sc. the Laplanders] call themselves Sami. 1864Chambers's Encycl. VI. 38/1 The Lapps, who call themselves the Sami or Sahmelads, are a physically ill-developed, diminutive race. 1935S. J. Beckett Wayfarer in Norway xx. 145 The Lapps call themselves Sami or Sahmelads, whilst they call the Finns Suomi (which, like the name Finn, means ‘Fen’, or marsh-dwellers). 1957R. Paine Coast Lapp Society I. i. i. 3 The people whom we know as Lapps have their own name for themselves—sabme, plural sāmek. In academic circles inside Scandinavia, the Lappish term is now replacing any other... Outside Scandinavia, however,..sabme is not widely understood. 1964S. Dunn et al. tr. E. D. Prokof'yeva in Levin & Potapov Peoples of Siberia 547 Some scholars have compared the name ‘Samoyed’ with the Lappish (Saam) words ‘same-yedne’ (‘land of the Saams’). This is based on the fact that the territory settled by the Nentsy..was in earlier times inhabited by the Lapps (Saams). 1968[see pot n.1 13 f]. 1977Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 19 June 22/3 The..reindeer herder is one of the Saame, better known as Lapps. 1980Times 8 Feb. 14/7 The 2,000 or so Lapps, or more accurately Sami, who live in this area. |