Amt – German noun declension

Noun: Amt
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Amt

Amt,

Etymology

1. From Middle High German ambahte, ambehte, ambet, ammet, ampt, ambt, amt, from Old High German ambahti, ambaht, from Proto-West Germanic *ambaht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz, from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos.
2. The Middle High German contracted form amb(e)t developed quite regularly, via also attested ammet or ambt, into modern German Amt. Cognate with Dutch ambacht and ambt, Swedish ämbete, and Finnish ammatti, as well as English ambassador and embassy. See: Dutch Nouns 'ambacht', Swedish Nouns 'ämbete', Finnish Nouns 'ammatti', English Nouns 'ambassador'.

Verbs referencing "Amt"

Dutch Nouns ambacht, Dutch Nouns ambt, Old Norse Nouns embætti, Danish Nouns amt, Swedish Nouns ämbete, Danish Nouns embede, Old English Nouns ambeht.

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