Etymology

amn't

Today it means: am not Full definition →

English am ← Middle English am ← Old English eom
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁es-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ésmi
  3. Proto-Germanic*immi
  4. Proto-West Germanic*im
  5. Old Englisheom
  6. Middle Englisham
  7. Englisham
  8. English todayamn't

From am + -n’t.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.