-amment
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]In Old French, adjectives 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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-amment
- variant of -ment appended to adjectives ending in -ant
- courant + -amment → couramment
Middle French
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-amment
- Variant of -ment appended to adjectives ending with -ant.