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immo

Pronunciation: [ˈɪm.moː]

“immo” is a Latin word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adverb

  1. on the contrary, nay (rather), no indeed
  2. actually, what is more, even (often intensified with edepol, hercle, ecastor, vero, potius, etc.)

Etymology

May be for *ipsimō, from ipse. Otherwise the ablative singular of īmus with unexpected geminate /mm/, or conflated therewith. Some comparativists, including Götze & Pedersen (1934) and more recently Kimball (1999) and Kloekhorst (2008), have compared Hittite 𒅎𒈠 (im-ma, “truly, really, indeed”) and Luwian 𒅎𒈠 (im-ma), hieroglyphic [script needed] (ima, “indeed”). The details of this connection are…

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