amt

See also: Amt, AMT, amt., and åmt

English

Etymology 1

Noun

amt (plural amts)

1. Abbreviation of amount.

Etymology 2

From Danish amt.

Noun

amt (plural amts)

1. (historical) A county in Denmark.

Anagrams

• ATM, MAT, MTA, Mat, Mat., TAM, TMA, atm, mat, mat., tam

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German ambt, ambt, ambacht, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtiją, cognate with German Amt (“office”), Old Norse embætti. Doublet of embede (see more there).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amˀt/, [ˈɑmˀd̥]

Noun

amt n (singular definite amtet, plural indefinite amter)

1. county (a first-level country division in Denmark from 1662–2007)

Declension

Declension of amt

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	amt	amtet	amter	amterne
genitive	amts	amtets	amters	amternes

Derived terms

• amtmand
• amtsborgmester
• amtsgrænse
• amtsgård
• amtskommune
• amtsråd
• statsamt

See also

• amt on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• (historical) len (“fief”)
• (currently) administrative subdivision

Vilamovian

Alternative forms

• aomt

Etymology

From Old High German ambaht.

Noun

amt n

1. office