damâjo

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms
  • damôzhou, damôzou, damôezhou, doumazhou, damôze, damâdzo, domâdzo

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *damnāticum, from Latin damnum. The regular outcome should have been *danâjo; the actual /m/ may reflect influence from Latin[1] or one of the neighbouring languages with regular /mn/ > /m/ (cf. Old French damage).

Noun

damâjo m

  1. damage

References
  • damâjo in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “damnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 11
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