Etymology

Formed with prefix within English on samen (adv.).

PGmc Ancestor

*saman- 

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

saman ‘together’
(ONP saman (adv.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

OE Cognate

cp. æt-samne, tō-samne ‘together’

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

CCC1ac

Attestation

Hapax legomenon, but samen (adv.) is characteristically N and E and alliterative (inc. W.Pal., PP) in ME.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 605

Bibliography

MED unsā̆men (adv.) , OED unsamen (adv.) , HTOED ; see further samen (adv.).