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Swedish
Etymology
First attested in 1587, an adverb with the looks of a dative plural (-om ending), based on små (“small”), possibly based on Old Swedish adverb smam (dative plural of små) after the m shifted into an n; same as Norwegian småningom.
The separation into småning om is very rare, and probably unhistoric. This is not the preposition om, but a dative ending.
Pronunciation
Adverb
småningom (not comparable)
- after some time; sooner or later, eventually
Dessa stammar visade stor mottaglighet för den romerska kulturen och utbytte småningom sina egna idiom mot "lingua romana".- These tribes showed great receptiveness for the Roman culture and eventually exchanged their own languages for "lingua romana".
References
- småningom in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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