köken: Borrowed from French amulette, from Middle French amulete, from Latin amulētum. The feminine gender stems from French, the neuter gender from Latin.
an amulet or charm to ward off illness or other misfortune · a magic charm
köken: Possibly from Middle Chinese compound 呪符 (MC tsyuwH bju). Alternatively, coined in Japanese from Sinitic elements. First cited to a work from 1884.
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”).