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German
Etymology
From Middle High German armuot, armuote, from Old High German armuoti, from Proto-West Germanic *armōdī (“poverty”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Armut f (genitive Armut, no plural)
- poverty
- Antonym: Reichtum m
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References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “arm”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “arma”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “Armut” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Armut” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Armut” in Duden online