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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ambō

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ambô, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃émbʰō ~ *h₃m̥bʰnés, from the root *h₃enbʰ- (“navel, hub”). Formal cognate with Latin umbō.

Noun

*ambō m

  1. belly
  1. Synonyms: *balgi, *hrif, *kweþu, *magō, *wambu

Declension
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *ambō
Genitive *ambini, *amban
Singular Plural
Nominative *ambō *amban
Accusative *amban *amban
Genitive *ambini, *amban *ambanō
Dative *ambini, *amban *ambum
Instrumental *ambini, *amban *ambum

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