[suhm; unstressed suh
m] 
| 1. | being an undetermined or unspecified one: Some person may object. |
| 2. | (used with plural nouns) certain: Some days I stay home. |
| 3. | of a certain unspecified number, amount, degree, etc.: to some extent. |
| 4. | unspecified but considerable in number, amount, degree, etc.: We talked for some time. He was here some weeks. |
| 5. | Informal. of impressive or remarkable quality, consequence, extent, etc.: That was some storm. |
| 6. | certain persons, individuals, instances, etc., not specified: Some think he is dead. |
| 7. | an unspecified number, amount, etc., as distinguished from the rest or in addition: He paid a thousand dollars and then some. |
| 8. | (used with numerals and with words expressing degree, extent, etc.) approximately; about: Some 300 were present. |
| 9. | Informal. to some degree or extent; somewhat: I like baseball some. She is feeling some better today. |
| 10. | Informal. to a great degree or extent; considerably: That's going some. |
| a native English suffix formerly used in the formation of adjectives: quarrelsome; burdensome. |
| a collective suffix used with numerals: twosome; threesome. |
| some (sŭm) adj.
[Middle English, from Old English sum, a certain one; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
"The word has had greater currency in English than in the other Teutonic languages, in some of which it is now restricted to dialect use, or represented only by derivatives or compounds, as WFris. sommige, somlike, Du. sommige (also somtiids, sommijlen 'sometimes'), LG sömige (G. dial. summige)." [OED]Meaning "remarkable" is attested from 1808, Amer.Eng. colloquial. A possessive form is attested from 1565, but always was rare. Most combination forms were in M.E.; somehow is from 1664; something once was very common as an adv. (cf. something like). Somebody in the sense of "important person" dates from 1566. Somewhen is rare and since 19c. used almost exclusively in combination with more common compounds. Get some "have sexual intercourse" is attested 1899 in a quote attributed to Abe Lincoln from c.1840.
-some suff.
Body: centrosome.
Chromosome: autosome.
some
see and then some; catch some rays; catch some z's; dig up (some dirt); in a (some) sense; in some measure; one of these days (some day); take some doing; to some degree; win some, lose some.