-amment

French

Etymology

In Old French, adjective ending in -ant often had identical masculine and feminine forms, so that the adverbial form ended in -antment, which resulted the loss of the t between the n and m, leading to -anment and then -amment.

Suffix

-amment

  1. Variant of -ment appended to adjectives ending with -ant.
    courant → couramment

Derived terms
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Middle French

Suffix

-amment

  1. Variant of -ment appended to adjectives ending with -ant.
    courant → couramment
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