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Ame , anabôȥ,, ‘anvil'; a specifically  word allied to  bôȥân,  bôȥen, ‘to beat, strike.’   beátan,  to beat (see , , ). Whether ana-bôȥ is formed by the imitation of  incus (allied to cudere) is uncertain, for the smith's art was early developed among the Teutons without any Southern influence. The corresponding terms anfilt,  anvil (also  ana-falz),  aanbeeld,  anebelte,  ambolt, are similarly formed.   ,, from the  ā̆meiȥe (emeze, whence  ),  ā̆meiȥȥa, , ‘ant'; note   ametze,  ā̆meitza. It corresponds to œmette,  emmet, ant. The derivation can scarcely be ascertained with certainty, as the relations of the vowels of the accented syllable are not clear; the form ămeiȥȥa evidently indicates a connection with ;,  ‘the diligent (insect).’ On the other hand,  â-meizza and  œ-mette point to a root mait, ‘to cut, gnaw' (see under ), so that it would signify ‘gnawing insect’ ( and  â- means ‘off, to pieces'). and mier, ‘ant,’ is more widely diffused than,  miera ( *miuzjô),  mŷra,  mire,  mŷra, ‘ant’;  ‘that which lives in the moss, the moss insect,’ allied to  meuso- (see ). A word formed from the formica is probably at the base of Swiss wurmeisle.   ,, ‘starch-flour,’ from amel, amer,  amar,’ summer-spelt'; the  signification seems to be influenced by - amylon, ‘finest meal’ ( amel-corn).   , (the  term is ), ‘chief magistrate, bailiff,’ from  amman, a shortened collateral form of ambetman, ‘magistrate, bailiff';  sense, ‘servant, official,’ afterwards also ‘magistrate.’ See also.   ,, ‘(wet-)nurse, foster-mother,’ from amme, , ‘mother, in so far as the child is fed by her; (wet-)nurse,’  amma, ; allied to  amma, ‘grandmother' ( and  even yet ‘mother’). Probably an instinctive sound, since, undoubtedly independent of the group,  also and other languages have similar words for ;   and  ama.   ,, ‘chief magistrate,’ from ammeister, from ambetmeister, like  , from ;  ammanmeister and ammeister, ‘president of the guilds (of Strasburg).’   ,, from the  amer,  amero (*amaro), ,’ yellow-hammer,’ with the   and  amerinc, ‘yellow-hammer,’  amarellus, which may have been formed from the  word;  yellow - hammer  is a corrupt form. Whether *amaro was derived from  amar, ‘summer-spelt,’ is as doubtful as its relation to.   ,, ‘lamp,’ from ampel (also ampulle),  ampulla, , ‘lamp,’ also ‘vessel.’ Borrowed in  from  ampulla, ‘flask, vessel,’ whence also  ampelle,  ample, ‘vessel’ ( pulle, ‘bottle’). <section end="Ampel" /> <section begin="Ampfer" /> ,, ‘sorrel,’ from the  ampfer,  ampfaro, ; allied to the   ompre; an  used as a substantive. amper, ‘sharp, bitter, unripe,’ amper, ‘sour, bitter,’  apr (for *ampr), ‘sharp' (chiefly of cold); also  ampern, ‘to prove bitter to the taste.’  (also corrupted to ) is a tautological compound like. In case ampra-, from *ambro-, represents the  Aryan *amró-,  amlá, ‘sour' (also ‘wood-sorrel'), and  amârus, ‘bitter,’ are  cognate with this word. <section end="Ampfer" /> <section begin="Amsel" /> ,, ‘blackbird,’ from the  amsel,  amsala,. It corresponds to ôsle (ôs- from ams-),  ousel; the   mĕrula ( merle), whence  meerle and  merl are borrowed, may represent *mĕsula, and have been  cognate with. Its relation to and to  ams, ‘shoulder,’ is uncertain. <section end="Amsel" /> <section begin="Amt" /> ,, ‘office, council, jurisdiction,’ from ammet, older ambet,  ambaht, ambahti, , ‘service, office, occupation, divine service, mass’; a word common to the  group. andbahti, ‘office, service' (from andbahts, ‘servant,’ ambaht, ‘servant'),  anbiht, ambiht,, ‘office, service,’ ambiht, , ‘servant' (obsolete at the beginning of the  period),  ambt,  ambaht-skepi, ‘service,’ ambaht-man, ‘servant.’ The relation of the common  word to the - ambactus (mentioned in Caesar's Bell. Gall.), ‘vassal,’ is much disputed. The West words may be best explained from  and  ándbahta-,<section end="Amt" />