-zaam

Used to form adjectives/adverbs of base adjective's quality; compare English -able, English -some

Etymology

In summary

From Middle Dutch -sam, later also -saem based on the inflected forms, from Old Dutch -sam, from Proto-Germanic *-samaz, from *samaz (“same”). Cognate with English -some, German -sam, Old Norse -samr.

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