köken: Borrowed from Latin amulētum (“amulet”), later also an internationalism chiefly via German Amulett (“amulet”) and French amulette (“amulet”) (see also English amulet).
köken: Uncertain. Watkins suggests a derivation from amylum (“starch”) as an original meaning of a medicine containing starch. Also compare āmōlior (“to remove from; to repel”), and Ancient Greek ἀμύνω (amúnō, “to ward off”).
Borrowed from French talisman, from Arabic طِلَسْم (ṭilasm), from Ancient Greek τέλεσμα (télesma). * 1644, Johan de Brune, de Jonge, Wetsteen der vernuften, publ. by Iacob Lescaille, page 46. *: […] d'Arabiers geven 'er de naam van Talisman aan; gelijk Scaliger in zijn Fransche brieven getuigt. […] the Arabs give to it the name of Talisman; like Scaliger attests in his French letters.