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-amment

-amment

French

Suffix

-amment

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

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:French_words_suffixed_with_-amment'>French words suffixed with -amment</a>

Middle French

Suffix

-amment

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

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.

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