Etymograph

English

amanse

Amanse comes from Old English āmǣnsumian ‘to excommunicate, anathematize, curse,…’, and goes back to ġemāna ‘community, company, common property,…’.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġemāna‘community, company, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation’
  2. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150āmǣnsumian‘to excommunicate, anathematize, curse, proscribe, outlaw’literally ‘to disjoin’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500amansen
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1781amanse

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġemāna‘community, company, common property, communion, companionship, intercourse, cohabitation’
  2. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150āmǣnsumian‘to excommunicate, anathematize, curse, proscribe, outlaw’literally ‘to disjoin’
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500amansen
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1781amanse

Earliest quotation: 1781, Jacob Bryant, Thomas Chatterton: “From hence it is plain, that the amanased, or…”

Every English word from Old English ġemāna

Today it means

verb To excommunicate; interdict.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old English ġemāna / amanse

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