-amment

French

Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /a.mɑ̃/

Suffix

-amment

  1. variant of -ment appended to adjectives ending in -ant
    ‎courant + ‎-amment → ‎couramment

Middle French

Suffix

-amment

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