sammelsurium

See also: Sammelsurium

Swedish

Etymology

From German Sammelsurium, a joking Latinization of the Low German Sammelsur (a sour [considered inedible] mix of foods), from sammeln (to gather, to collect), used in Swedish since 1718.

Noun

sammelsurium n

  1. a hodgepodge, a jumble, a mix (of things without order), a mess
    • 1871, Alfred Theodor Snöbohm, Gotlands land och folk‎[1], page 77:
      Den föreställning, som mången gör sig, att gotlandsspråket är ett slags förbistrad svenska eller en blandning, ett sammelsurium, af svenska, danska och tyska, den föreställningen är grundfalsk.
      The assumption, which many share, that Gotland's language is a kind of fractured Swedish or a mix, a hodgepodge, of Swedish, Danish, and German, this idea is entirely false.
  2. gibberish, galimatias (incoherent speech or writing)

Declension

Declension of sammelsurium
nominative genitive
singular indefinite sammelsurium sammelsuriums
definite sammelsuriet sammelsuriets
plural indefinite sammelsurier sammelsuriers
definite sammelsurierna sammelsuriernas

Synonyms

mix of things
incoherent speech

References

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