Where did the word Amish come from?

Home More advice Religion, Spirituality & Folklore

• Answer #1

  AMISH:

  Etymology: probably from German amisch, from Jacob Amman or Amen fl1693 Swiss Mennonite bishop : of or relating to a strict sect of Mennonites who were followers of Amman and settled in America chiefly in the 18th century

• FUNADVICE RELIGION

  • Top 7 Mindfulness and Spiritual Principles in Business Negotiations
  • What Do Religious People Have in Common?
• Answer #2

  I think you mean Amish. Anyway, Amish get their name from a Mennonite leader named Jacob Amman who broke with the Mennonites because he felt the group was moving away from their original teachings.

• Answer #3

  Omish are people that follow a specific religion, a derivative of Christianity...there were several such derivatives that migrated to the Americas such as Puritans, Quakers, etc.

• Answer #4

  at first is was a mish-mash of many people... they cut off the mash, and called themselves a mish and leter AMISH

• More advice in Religion, Spirituality & Folklore

  1. Religion, Spirituality & Folklore
  2. where did God come from?
  3. What do you think of the Amish?
  4. Cuss words
  5. Whats the word for apocalypse?
  6. when do you think that Armageddon will come?
  7. When is God coming back?
  8. when will the end of the world come and what will happen?
  9. Do you think the world is coming to end?
  10. what's the word when you are::
  11. Who is Jesus and why did he come to Earth?