Etymology

ammer

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Today it means: The yellowhammer; yellow bunting; Emberiza citrinella. Full definition →

Middle English *amere ← Old English amore
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  1. Old English · inherited fromamore
  2. Middle English · inherited from*amere
  3. English todayammer

Inherited from Middle English *amere, *ambre, from Old English amore. Alternatively, it may be a clipping of yellowhammer or earlier yelambre. Favored over *hammer due to the influence of its German cognate and synonym Ammer (“bunting”) and its predecessors, Middle High German amer and Old High German amaro.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishamore all →

yellowhammeryelamber

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.