"-amment" meaning in French

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  "etymology_text": "In Old French, adjectives ending in -ant often had identical masculine and feminine forms, so that the adverbial form ended in -antment, which resulted the loss of the t between the n and m, leading to -anment and then -amment.",
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  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "suffix",
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        {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "courant (“current”) → couramment (“currently”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "variant of -ment appended to adjectives ending in -ant"
      ],
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          "-ment",
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          "-ant",
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a.mɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-amment"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "In Old French, adjectives ending in -ant often had identical masculine and feminine forms, so that the adverbial form ended in -antment, which resulted the loss of the t between the n and m, leading to -anment and then -amment.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-amment (adverb-forming suffix)",
      "name": "fr-adv"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "-ment appended to adjectives ending in -ant"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "courant (“current”) → couramment (“currently”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "variant of -ment appended to adjectives ending in -ant"
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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          "-ant",
          "-ant#French"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a.mɑ̃/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-amment"
}

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  "msg": "unrecognized head form: adverb-forming suffix",
  "path": [
    "-amment"
  ],
  "section": "French",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "-amment",
  "trace": ""
}