amechtig.
powerless
Meaning & usage
powerless
short of breath, panting, short-winded
forced, frantic
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch amechtich, amachtich, perhaps from *amacht (“powerlessness”) + -ich; compare Old High German āmahtīg (German ohnmächtig, with altered prefix). The presence of umlauted -e- in this word is due to Low German influence; in Dutch the -cht would otherwise have prevented umlaut (as in machtig). The sense "short of breath" arose due to conflation of the privative West-Germanic prefix a- (seemingly unrelated to the Indo-European alpha privative) with the contracted form aâm of the word adem (“breath”).
in a forced, frantic way
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch amechtich, amachtich, perhaps from *amacht (“powerlessness”) + -ich; compare Old High German āmahtīg (German ohnmächtig, with altered prefix). The presence of umlauted -e- in this word is due to Low German influence; in Dutch the -cht would otherwise have prevented umlaut (as in machtig). The sense "short of breath" arose due to conflation of the privative West-Germanic prefix a- (seemingly unrelated to the Indo-European alpha privative) with the contracted form aâm of the word adem (“breath”).
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