*amalą

Uncertain. The relationship of the onomastic stem Amal- to shorter am-/ama- is uncertain. Kaufmann analyzes Amal- (beside Amul-, Amil-) as an extension of the name stem am-, while allowing that am- could instead be a secondary shortening of older amal- (Meineke 2010: 25, citing Kaufmann 1968: 31–32). Schramm (2013: 136) instead regards Amala- as probably primary, comparing Old Norse aml. The base may ultimately continue Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-, cognate with Sanskrit अमीति (amīti), Avestan 𐬀𐬨𐬀 (ama-), Ancient Greek ὄμνυμι (ómnumi), and Phrygian umnotan (Beekes 2010: 1078; Obrador-Cursach 2021: 53). LIV² alternatively reconstructs *h₂emh₃-, chiefly on account of the disputed comparison with Latin amō (Rix et al. 2001: 265–66).