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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ambô

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Pre-Germanic *h₃émbʰon-, *h₃énbʰon-, variant of *h₃nobʰ-, whence *nabō (“nave”). Compare Latin umbō (“boss (of a shield)”) (< h₃nbʰ-n-).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑm.bɔːː/

Noun

*ambô m [1]

  1. belly

Inflection
masculine an-stemDeclension of *ambô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *ambô *ambaniz
vocative *ambô *ambaniz
accusative *ambanų *ambanunz
genitive *ambiniz *ambanǫ̂
dative *ambini *ambammaz
instrumental *ambinē *ambammiz

Descendants
  • Old Saxon: *ambo (attested as ambon (plural))
    • Middle Low German: amme
  • Old High German: ambo, amban (< *ambanaz), ambana (< *ambanō) (secondary thematicization)
    • German: Amen (Hessian)

Further reading
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*amban-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 24
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