Ampfer

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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 *ampraz, from Proto-Germanic *ambraz, represents the properly Proto-Indo-European *amrós, Sanskrit अम्ल (amlá, “sour; wood-sorrel”) and Latin amārus (“bitter”) are primitively cognate with this word.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

Ampfer m (genitive Ampfers, plural Ampfer)

  1. sorrel (plant)

Declension

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References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Ampfer”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

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