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In Swedish one word for a meeting is ett sammentr\u00e4<\/b>de. I wondered about the origins of this word, so thought I would investigate.<\/p>\n
Sammentr\u00e4de<\/b> comes from sammantr\u00e4da<\/i> (to meet, to hold a meeting, to convene), which comes from sammen<\/i> (together) and tr\u00e4da (to tread, walk, step). So when you have a meeting in Swedish, you are “treading together”.<\/p>\n
Sammentr\u00e4de<\/b> also means session, conclave or assembly. Related expressions include:<\/p>\n
– sammantr\u00e4da igen = to reconvene
\n– sammantr\u00e4de som f\u00f6rsigg\u00e5r i plenum – plenary session
\n– regeringssammantr\u00e4de – cabinet meeting<\/p>\n
Other Swedish words for meeting include:<\/p>\n
– m\u00f6te<\/b> = meeting, assembly, conference, convocation, encounter, engagement, rally, meet
\n– konferens<\/b> = meeting, conference, consultation, school meeting
\n– samling<\/b> = array, gathering, meeting, accumulation, aggregate, assembling, assembly, battery, body, bunch, circus, cluster, coalition, collection, crowd, cumulation, garner, huddle, lot, meet, pack, corpus
\n– sammenkomst<\/b> = assembly, gathering, gettogether, meeting, conference, session (“arrive together”)
\n– f\u00f6rsamling<\/b> = assembly, parish, cure, flock, township, meeting, congregation, diet<\/p>\n
Are there interesting words for meeting in other languages?<\/p>\n
Sources: Wiktionary<\/a><\/i>, <\/i>bab.la<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Swedish one word for a meeting is ett sammentr\u00e4de. I wondered about the origins of this word, so thought I would investigate. Sammentr\u00e4de comes from sammantr\u00e4da (to meet, to hold a meeting, to convene), which comes from sammen (together) and tr\u00e4da (to tread, walk, step). So when you have a meeting in Swedish, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}