From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa, feminine of summus.
Borrowed from Kazakh сом, Kyrgyz сом, Uyghur سوم, and Uzbek soʻm, all of which have the core signification “pure”, used in elliptical reference to historical coins of pure gold.
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