Ammer

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• IPA^(key): [ˈamɛr]

Ammer m anim (female equivalent Ammerová)

1. a male surname

• IPA^(key): /ˈamɐ/
• Rhymes: -amɐ

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From Middle High German amer, from Old High German amaro, clipped from an assumed compound *amarofogal, from Old High German amar (“spelt, emmer”) for its preferred food. See Emmer.

Ammer f (genitive Ammer, plural Ammern) or
Ammer (alternatively in technical usage) m (mixed, genitive Ammers, plural Ammern)

1. (ornithology) bunting (Emberiza) (type of songbird)

or

• Ämmerling, Emmerling, Hämmerling

• “Ammer” in Duden online
• “Ammer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

die Ammer f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Ammer)

1. a left tributary of the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
2. a left tributary of the Isar in southern Bavaria, Germany, called the Amper below the Ammersee

• “Ammer” in Duden online

Ammer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Ammers or (with an article) Ammer, feminine genitive Ammer, plural Ammers or Ammer)

1. a surname

Borrowed from Latin amārus (“sour”).

Ammer f (genitive Ammer, plural Ammern)

1. (obsolete) sour cherry

• “Ammer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Inherited from Old High German amar.

Ammer m (strong, genitive Ammers, no plural)

1. (obsolete) emmer (type of wheat)

   Synonym: (modern word) Emmer

Inherited from Old High German eimurrā, eimuriā.

Ammer f (genitive Ammer, plural Ammern)

1. (obsolete) ember

• “Ammer” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.