Etymology: Originally (in quot. 1450 at sense 1a) < Anglo-Norman amunte amount, value (c1175 or earlier), cost, damages (late 13th cent. or earlier) < amunter amount v. In later use re-formed < amount v. Compare earlier amountance n. and amountment n.Compare the following early examples of formulaic use of the word amount in lists and accounts, although it is unclear whether these should be interpreted as showing the noun or the verb (in an abbreviated form or construction; compare amount v. 4a):1442–3 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 274 Item, paide for Rosenyng of the Wedirside of the parlour, and of iij pentises in Rosen, talogh, and mennes labour, amount xxv s. iiij d.c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxvi^v/1 Somm of al theis chirches that is to say. Mynstirs abbeis..and the other placis of relygion. amount. xxxvi.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman amunter, amounter, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French amonter to rise, go up, to be worth, to increase, (of a genealogy) to go back in time (all 12th cent.), to mean, signify (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier), to raise, elevate (c1225) < amont , amunt upward (c1100) < classical Latin ad montem to the hill, hillward, upward < ad to (see ad- prefix) + montem , accusative singular of mōns mount n.¹ Compare mount v. (now the usual word in branch I.).Compare post-classical Latin amuntare (also amontare ) to amount to (from early 13th cent. in British sources). With to amount to (compare senses 3b and 4b) compare Anglo-Norman amonter a to be worth, to mean, signify (both late 12th cent. or earlier).