damâjo
Franco-Provençal
Alternative forms
- damôzhou, damôzou, damôezhou, doumazhou, damôze, damâdzo, domâdzo, darmâjo
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *damnāticum, from Latin damnum. The regular outcome should have been *danâjo; the actual /m/ may reflect influence from Latin[1] or one of the neighbouring languages with regular /mn/ > /m/ (cf. Old French damage).
Noun
damâjo m
- damage
References
- damâjo in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “damnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 11