Etymograph

English

amit

Amit comes from Latin āmittō ‘to lose, to send away’, from Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méyth₂eti1uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*meitō1‘to put forth, put out’uncertain
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEmītō1uncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittō1‘send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEāmittō2‘to lose, to send away’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1646amit2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin amitto
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English amit
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “And though a loadstone fired doth presently amit its…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*méyth₂etiWiktionary, Latin amittouncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*meitōWiktionary, Latin amitto‘to put forth, put out’uncertain
  3. Old Latinc. 700–75 BCEmītōWiktionary, Latin amittouncertain
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmittōWiktionary, Latin amitto‘send’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEāmittōWiktionary, English amit‘to lose, to send away’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1646amitWiktionary, English amit. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: “And though a loadstone fired doth presently amit its…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *meitō ‘to put forth, put out’

remission, unremitting, 19 more

through Old Latin mītō

permission, transmission, admission, submission, emission, omission, remit, commissariat, 21 more

through Latin mittō ‘send’

commission, mission, committee, mess, admit, missile, commit, premise, dismiss, transmit, intermittent, commissary, permissive, commissar, emit, remiss, omit, missive, 33 more

Today it means

verb To lose.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “amit”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin amitto. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti / amit

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