amn't en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /ˈæm(ə)nt/ stressed form
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- /əm(ə)nt/ (unstressed)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi Proto-Germanic *immi Proto-West Germanic *im Old English eom Middle English am English am English -n’t English amn't From am + -n’t.
Meanings
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(Ireland, Scotland, nonstandard, qualifier:rarely elsewhere) am not
Amn’t I with you? Amn’t I your girl?
1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, →OL, ch. 15:Now, I’m very conscious of what I am or amn’t referencing from those eras, and I’m so comfortable with that – being a reinvention of a retro kind of thing.
2017 November 18, Al Porter, quoted in Patrick Freyne, "Al Porter: ‘After wild sex with a priest, I realised the priesthood was not for me’", The Irish Times2004 An Coimisinéir Teanga, Frequently Asked Questions I phoned a government office but nobody there had any Irish so I couldn't do my business with them in Irish. Amn't I entitled under the Act to conduct business with any Government office in Irish?
If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine, He gets no free drinks when I’m making the wine
1904, Oliver St. John Gogarty, The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus: