Ampfer

German

Etymology

From the equivalent Middle High German ampfer, Old High German ampfaro, masculine, allied to the equivalent Old English ompre; an adjective used as a substantive. Compare Dutch amper (“sharp, bitter, unripe”), Old Swedish amper, 'sour, bitter,' Old Norse apr (“sharp, chiefly of cold”) (for *ampr); also Low German ampern (“to prove bitter to the taste”). Sauerampfer (also corrupted to Sauer-ramf) is a tautological compound like Windhund. In case Proto-Germanic *ampra-, from Proto-Germanic *ambro-, represents the properly Proto-Indo-European *amró-, Sanskrit amlá (“sour”) (also 'wood-sorrel'), and Latin amârus (“bitter”), are primitively cognate with this word.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈam(p)fɐ/

Noun

Ampfer m

  1. sorrel (plant)

References
  1. Ampfer in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, 1891

Further reading
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