a. Obs. Forms: α. 3 summes cunnes, kinnes, 4 som skenus, 5 skynnes, summe skynes. β. 3 sume kunnes, 4 sumkin(e)s, 5 som kynnes, somkennys, -kyns. γ. 3 somme kine, 5 som(m)e kynne, som kyn, somkyn, 4–5 sumkyn, -kin. [f. SOME a.1 2 + KIN sb.1 6 b.] Some kind of; some; such.
α. c. 1200. Ormin, 18702. Forr sumess kinness dedess.
c. 1205. Lay., 21765. Of summes cunnes leoden.
13[?]. S. Eng. Leg. (MS. Bodl. 779), in Herrig, Archiv, LXXXII. 323/592. Þat he amended here lif in som skenus matere.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 10766. With som qweyntyse, Or scleght, by som skynnes wyse.
β. a. 1300. Floriz & Bl., 415. To fonde mid sume kunnes ginne Hu he miȝte hire awinne.
13[?]. Cursor M., 207 (Gött.). Þer suld ȝe here … Of þe tuelue apostlis sumkins ieste.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Man of Law’s T., 1137 (Ellesm.). Or Ire or talent or som kynnes affray.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., xiii. 708. Thou grauntt vs somkyns gle.
γ. c. 1275. Lay., 3949. Swiken him aþohte in somme kine wise.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 165. Þar sal ȝe find sumkyn dedis þat iesus did.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, X. 519. To wyn the wall of the castell Throu sumkyn slicht.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2259 (D.). Of some kynne gamez Off were or of wristylyng.
