Etymology

amort

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Today it means: As if dead; depressed Full definition →

Middle French à la mort
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The story

  1. Middle French · derived fromà la mort“to the death”
  2. English todayamort

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchà la mort all →

alamort

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.