Sym

Middle English

Etymology

Diminutive of Simeon and Simon.

Proper noun

Sym

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Sim
   • c. 1475, “The Hunttyng of the Hare”, in Henry Weber, editor, Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: Published from Ancient Manuscripts. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] George Ramsay and Company, for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; and John Murray, and Constable, Hunter, Park, and Hunter, […], published 1810, pages 281 (lines 49–54) and 287 (lines 187–188):

     “Parkyn the potter hase iij that wyll not fayll, / Short schonkes and neuer a tayll; / No kalfe so greyt, as Y wene. / So has Dykon and Jac Gryme, / So has yonge Raynall and Sym, / And all thè schall hom sene.”— […] Sym, that was balyd lyke a kow, / He seyd: “Syrres, Y arest yow now.”

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Derived terms

• Sympson

Descendants

• English: Sim

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Сым (Sym).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɘm/
• Rhymes: -ɘm
• Syllabification: Sym

Proper noun

Sym m inan

1. Sym (a river in Russia)

Declension

Declension of Sym

	singular
nominative	Sym
genitive	Symu
dative	Symowi
accusative	Sym
instrumental	Symem
locative	Symie
vocative	Symie

Proper noun

Sym m pers

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Sym

	singular	plural
nominative	Sym	Symowie
genitive	Syma	Symów
dative	Symowi	Symom
accusative	Syma	Symów
instrumental	Symem	Symami
locative	Symie	Symach
vocative	Symie	Symowie

Proper noun

Sym f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Derived terms

• Symowa
• Symówna

 

See also

• Appendix:Polish surnames

Further reading

• Sym in Polish dictionaries at PWN