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

a hodgepodge, a jumble, a mix (of things without order), a mess
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.
gibberish, galimatias (incoherent speech or writing)

Declension

Declension of sammelsurium
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sammelsurium	sammelsuriet	sammelsurier	sammelsurierna
Genitive	sammelsuriums	sammelsuriets	sammelsuriers	sammelsuriernas

Synonyms

mix of things

salig blandning
mischmasch

incoherent speech

gallimatias

References

sammelsurium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
sammelsurium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

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