sumdel
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sumdel.
Adverb
[edit]sumdel (not comparable)
- Alternative form of somedeal
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sum (“some”) + del (“deal, part, portion”).
Adverb
[edit]sumdel
- somewhat, to an extent, in some measure
- c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls:
- Thow hast the so wel born In lokynge of myn olde bok totorn..That sumdel of thy labour wolde I quyte.
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- part, portion, a bit, small amount
- 1425, Wycliffe Bible, Gen. 40:4:
- Sumdel of tyme passide, and thei weren hooldun in kepyng.
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- in ~: in this instance, in this case (transl. of Latin in hac parte)
- 1425, “The Pauline Epistles”, in Wycliffe Bible, 2 Cor 9:3:
- We hafe sent...oure breþere as of what maner I seyde, þai be redy, lest of þat þat we hafe ioyed, it be voyded in sumdele.
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