Where does “FrankenSAM” come from?

FrankenSAM (English) comes from English SAM, from Middle English sām, from Old English sāmen, from Proto-Germanic saman, from Proto-Germanic samanai, from Proto-Indo-European sem- — together, one.

FrankenSAM (English): Any ground-based air-defence system assembled from multiple heterogeneous existing air-defence systems

Definitions

  1. Any ground-based air-defence system assembled from multiple heterogeneous existing air-defence systems

Ancestry of “FrankenSAM”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSAMInitialism of surface-to-air missile; Initialism...
2Middle Englishsāmtogether
3Old Englishsāmentogether
4Proto-Germanicsaman—
5Proto-Germanicsamanaiat one; together
6Proto-Indo-Europeansem-together, one
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sem- →Every word from Proto-Germanic samanai →Every word from Proto-Germanic saman →