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From an earlier Samãos. Attested as Samanos in local early Medieval Latin documents, it being the name of a local monastery founded under Suevic or Gothic rule in the 6th or 7th century; either from Proto-Germanic*samanai, cf. Gothic𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰(samana, “together”) and Old High Germangisemini(“congregation”), or from a a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from a Celtic cognate of this Germanic forms.
