samfund
Danish
/samfonˀ/
noun
Definitions
- society a group of people living together in an area or the institutions of such a group
- society, community an association of people sharing common beliefs
- (archaic) social intercourse
Etymology
Affix from Danish fund (q, finding) + Danish obsolete meeting inherited from Old Norse samfundr (gathering).
Origin
Old Norse
samfundr
Gloss
gathering
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- samfunn Norwegian Bokmål
- fund Swedish
- samfund Swedish
- trossamfund Swedish
- världssamfund Swedish
- samfunn Norwegian Nynorsk
- samfundr Old Norse
- fund Danish
- kritisk Danish
- obsolete meeting Danish
- samfundskritisk Danish
- samfundsmæssig Danish
- samfundsskadelig Danish
- samfundsstøtte Danish
- skadelig Danish
- støtte Danish
- tilfældighedsfund Danish