Where does “amand” come from?
amand (English) comes from English amende, from French amende, from French amender, from Middle French amender, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — whale, sea monster; abyss.
amand (English): To send away; dismiss; A fine or penalty
Definitions
- To send away; dismiss; A fine or penalty
Ancestry of “amand”, step by step
amand traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English amende
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | amende | A monetary punishment; a fine |
| 2 | French | amende | fine; first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 3 | French | amender | to amend |
| 4 | Middle French | amender | to improve; to fine |
| 5 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 6 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 17 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 18 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |