omma

See also: Omma, ömma, and ὄμμα

Cornish

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omma f (genitive singular ommu, plural ommur)

Possibly from a lost verb *ondia (“to breathe”) +‎ -ma (agentive suffix), literally “breather”, this is from Proto-West Germanic *anadōn, from Proto-Germanic *anadōną (“to exhale, breathe”), related to Old Norse anda (“to breathe, live”). In the other West Germanic languages, the meaning of *anadōn has shifted: Old High German antōn (“to act against”), Old English andian (“to envy”).^[1]

Alternatively, from a Proto-West Germanic *ammō, from Proto-Germanic *ammô, *anmô, from *ananą (“to breathe”) +‎ *-mô (agentive suffix, an earlier form of Old Frisian -ma), connecting it with Latin animus and Proto-Celtic *anaman.^[2]^[3]

A third etymology derives this word from *āmma, *āthma, variants of Old Frisian ēthma, ādema, from Proto-West Germanic *āþmō, *āþm (“breathing; breath”), from Proto-Germanic *ēþmaz (“breath, breathing”). If so, then cognate with Old English ǣþm (“breath”), Old Saxon āthom (“breath”).

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^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*anadan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 26
^ Boutkan, Dirk; Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005), “andern”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 23
^ Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009), An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Borrowed from Classical Persian عَامَّه (āmma, “public, populace, common people”), from Arabic عَامَّة (ʕāmma, “most general part of; common people”).

omma (plural ommalar)

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