An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Damm

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry Damm. Random word Special:RandomInCategory/Annotated entries in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
2598710An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D — DammJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

​ Damm, masculine, ‘dam, dike, mole,’ Middle High German tam(mm); the d of the Modern High German word compared with the t of Middle High German points to a recent borrowing from Low German; compare Dutch and English dam (a bank), Old Icelandic dammr. Gothic has only the derivative faurdammjan, ‘to embank, hinder’; akin to Anglo-Saxon demman, English to dam, Modern High German dämmen.

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