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Juris Alunāns claims he independently coined the word, originally saeimsm, from the verb saiet(“to go together”) = sa- + iet. The prefix sa- is cognate to the *s- in sejm, but the resemblance is otherwise superficial as the verbal roots differ. Regardless, the Latvian term was highly likely to have been influenced by the Polish term, even if one wishes to regard it as a calque or phono-semantic matching instead of a pure borrowing. Compare the rare hyper-Lithuanized form sueimas introduced by Simonas Daukantas, which is derived from sueĩti(“to gather”, equivalent to Latviansaiet).
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^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “Saeima”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN, page 141
^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1931) “Kreuzung einheimischer und fremder Synonyma ähnlicher Lautung im Baltischen [Crossing of native and foreign synonyms of similar sound in Baltic]”, in Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie (in German), volume 8, numbers 3–4, Leipzig: Markert & Petters Verlag, →JSTOR, page 424
^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “saĩmas”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 755
^ Guild, D. G. (1996–1997) “Calquing: Virtue or vice?”, in Linguistica Baltica, volumes 5–6, →ISSN, page 139
