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Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā Old English ǣmete Middle English ampte English ant From Middle English ampte, amte, amete, amote, ante, emete, emot, emotte, empt, empte, from Old English ǣmete, ǣmette, ǣmytte, ǣmætte (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (“ant”), of uncertain and debated origin (q.v.), but probably from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh2y- (“to cut”). See also emmet. Cognates Cognate with Yola emotee, emothee (“ant”), West Frisian eamel, eamelder, eameler (“ant”), Alemannic German Ameisse (“ant”), Bavarian Åmasn, Åmeisn (“ant”), Cimbrian amasa (“ant”), Dutch emt (“ant”), German Ameise, Emse (“ant”), Low German Emk (“ant”), Vilamovian ömys (“ant”), Yiddish אַמייזע (ameyze, “ant”).

415 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: سورة النمل — 27th sura of the Qur'an
• Bengali: সূরা নামল (śura namol) — 27th sura of the Qur'an
• Korean: 개미 (gaemi) — 27th sura of the Qur'an
• Swedish: Myran — 27th sura of the Qur'an
• Swedish: Myrorna — 27th sura of the Qur'an
• Uyghur: نەمل (neml) — 27th sura of the Qur'an
• Abaza: хвымбырцӏакӏьа (xwəmbərcʼakjʼa) — insect
• Abkhaz: ашышкамс (aŝəŝkʼams) — insect
• Acehnese: sidom — insect
• Afrikaans: mier — insect
• Ainu: イト゚ンナㇷ゚ (itunnap) — insect
• Akan: tɛtea — insect
• Albanian: milingonë — insect
• Southern Altai: кумурска (kumurska) — insect
• Southern Altai: комурска (komurska) — insect
• Southern Altai: чымалы (čïmalï) — insect
• Alviri-Vidari: مورچانه (murčāne) — insect
• Northern Amami Ōshima: 蟻 (ami) — insect
• Southern Amami Ōshima: 蟻 (an) — insect
• Amharic: ጉንዳን (gundan) — insect
• Guerrero Amuzgo: kíxján — insect
• Arabic: نَمْل (naml) — insect
• Arabic: نَمْلَة (namla) — insect
• Arabic: شَيْصَبَان (šayṣabān) — insect
• Arabic: نمل (naml) — insect
• Arabic: نملة (namla) — insect
• Arabic: نمل (nmal) — insect
• Arabic: نملة (namla) — insect
• Aragonese: fornica — insect
• Aramaic: ܫܘܫܡܢܐ — insect
• Aramaic: ܢܡܠܐ — insect
• Aramaic: ܪܚܫܐ — insect
• Aramaic: ܫܘܟܒܢܐ — insect
• Argobba: ጉንዳን (gundan) — insect
• Armenian: մրջյուն (mrǰyun) — insect
• Old Armenian: մրջիւն (mrǰiwn) — insect
• Aromanian: furnigã — insect
• Aromanian: furnicã — insect
• Eastern Arrernte: yerre — insect
• Western Arrernte: yerre — insect
• Ashkun: břamī — insect
• Assamese: পৰুৱা (porua) — insect
• Asturian: formiga — insect
• Avar: цӏунцӏра (cʼuncʼra) — insect
• Aymara: k'isimira — insect
• Aymara: qanlli — insect
• Azerbaijani: qarışqa — insect
• Azerbaijani: qarınca — insect
• West Coast Bajau: semut — insect
• Baluchi: مور (mor) — insect
• Baluchi: مورینک (morínk) — insect
• Bashkir: ҡырмыҫҡа (qırmıśqa) — insect
• Basque: inurri — insect
• Basque: txingurri — insect
• Belarusian: мура́шка (muráška) — insect
• Bengali: পিঁপড়া (pĩpṛa) — insect
• Bhojpuri: चींटी (cīṇṭī) — insect
• Bau Bidayuh: subi — insect
• Central Bikol: tanga — insect
• Bislama: anis — insect
• Bodo (India): मोस्रोम (mosrom) — insect
• Breton: merienenn — insect
• Breton: merien) — insect
• Bulgarian: мра́вка (mrávka) — insect
• Bulgarian: мравия́ (mravijá) — insect
• Bulgarian: мра́ва (mráva) — insect
• Burmese: ပုရွက်ဆိတ် (pu.rwakhcit) — insect
• Burmese: ပုရွက် (pu.rwak) — insect
• Buryat: шоргоолзон (šorgoolzon) — insect
• Catalan: formiga — insect
• Cebuano: alamigas — insect
• Cebuano: holmigas — insect
• Cebuano: hulmigas — insect
• Chamicuro: añalo — insect
• Chechen: зингат (zingat) — insect
• Cherokee: ᏙᏒᏓᎵ (dosvdali) — insect
• Chichewa: nyerere — insect
• Chinese Cantonese: 螞蟻 /蚂蚁 (maa5 ngai5) — insect
• Chinese Cantonese: 蟻 /蚁 (ngai5) — insect
• Eastern Min Chinese: 紅蟻 /红蚁 (è̤ng-ngiê) — insect
• Hakka Chinese: 蟻公 /蚁公 (ngie-kûng) — insect
• Hakka Chinese: 蟻仔 /蚁仔 (ngie-é, ngie-èr) — insect
• Chinese: 狗蟻 /狗蚁 (káu-hiā) — insect
• Chinese Mandarin: 螞蟻 /蚂蚁 (mǎyǐ) — insect
• Wu Chinese: 螞蟻 /蚂蚁 — insect
• Choctaw: shu̱kʋni — insect
• Chukchi: тыӄиӈэвыт (tyqiṇėvyt) — insect
• Chuvash: кӑткӑ (kătkă) — insect
• East Circassian: хъумпӏэцӏэдж (ꭓwumpʼɛcʼɛdž) — insect
• West Circassian: къамзэгу (qamzɛgwu) — insect
• Coptic: ϭⲁϫⲓϥ (čajif) — insect
• Coptic: ϫⲁϥϫⲓϥ (jafjif) — insect
• Cornish: moryon — insect
• Cornish: moryonenn — insect
• Crimean Gothic: miera — insect
• Crimean Tatar: qırmısqa — insect
• Czech: mravenec — insect
• Dalmatian: formaica — insect
• Danish: myre — insect
• Dargwa: имиала (imiala) — insect
• Dhivehi: ހިނި (hini) — insect
• Dhuwal: gälkal — insect
• Dieri: mirrka — insect
• Dimasa: kaising — insect
• Dutch: mier — insect
• Dzongkha: གྱོག་མོ (gyog mo) — insect
• Elfdalian: męre — insect
• Erzya: коткудав (kotkudav) — insect
• Esperanto: formiko — insect
• Estonian: sipelgas — insect
• Even: хирит (hirit) — insect
• Evenki: ириктэ (iriktə) — insect
• Ewe: anyidi — insect
• Farefare: ẽsga — insect
• Farefare: gũure — insect
• Faroese: meyra — insect
• Fijian: qasikalolo — insect
• Finnish: muurahainen — insect
• French: fourmi — insect
• North Frisian: mir — insect
• Saterland Frisian: Miegelke — insect
• West-Frisian: miammel — insect
• West-Frisian: eameler — insect
• Friulian: furmie — insect
• Friulian: furmìe — insect
• Ga: tsatsu — insect
• Ga: gaga — insect
• Galician: formiga — insect
• Georgian: ჭიანჭველა (č̣ianč̣vela) — insect
• German: Ameise — insect
• Gooniyandi: migi — insect
• Gorontalo: tolomo — insect
• Greek: μυρμήγκι (myrmígki) — insect
• Ancient Greek: μύρμηξ (múrmēx) — insect
• Ancient Greek: μύρμηγξ (múrmēnx) — insect
• Greenlandic: uniaaluk — insect
• Paraguayan Guarani: tahýi — insect
• Gujarati: કીડી (kīḍī) — insect
• Haitian Creole: foumi — insect
• Haitian Creole: fo(n)mi — insect
• Hausa: gara — insect
• Hawaiian: naonao — insect
• Hebrew: נְמָלָה (nemalá) — insect
• Hiligaynon: subay — insect
• Hindi: चींटी (cī̃ṭī) — insect
• Hindi: चिऊँटी (ciū̃ṭī) — insect
• Hmar: phaivang — insect
• White Hmong: ntsaum — insect
• Hungarian: hangya — insect
• Ibanag: taggam — insect
• Ibibio: nnuene — insect
• Icelandic: maur — insect
• Ilocano: kuton — insect
• Indonesian: semut — insect
• Ingrian: muurahain — insect
• Ingush: зунгат (zungat) — insect
• Interlingua: formica — insect
• Irish: seangán — insect
• Old Irish: moirb — insect
• Istriot: furmeîga — insect
• Istro-Romanian: frunigĕ — insect
• Italian: formica — insect
• Itelmen: чʼозаӄ — insect
• Jamaican Creole: ants — insect
• Japanese: 蟻 (ari) — insect
• Japanese: アリ (ari) — insect
• Javanese: semut — insect
• Javanese: ꦱꦼꦩꦸꦠ꧀ (semut) — insect
• Jeju: 개염지 (gaeyeomji) — insect
• Kamkata-viri: vřāmik — insect
• Kanakanabu: takʉrʉma — insect
• Kannada: ಇರುವೆ (iruve) — insect
• Kapampangan: panas — insect
• Kaqchikel: ch’eken — insect
• Karachay-Balkar: къумурсха (qumursxa) — insect
• Kashmiri: رؠے (ryay) — insect
• Kashmiri: ریٚے (rey) — insect
• Kashubian: mrówka — insect
• Kaurna: kadngi — insect
• Kazakh: құмырсқа (qūmyrsqa) — insect
• Khakas: хымысха (xımısxa) — insect
• Khmer: ស្រមោច (srɑɑmaoc) — insect
• Kikai: 蟻 (anī) — insect
• Klamath-Modoc: q'iMaac — insect
• Korean: 개미 (gaemi) — insect
• Kumyk: хомурсгъа (xomursğa) — insect
• Kuna: sichir — insect
• Kunigami: 蟻 (ai) — insect
• Northern Kurdish: mûrî — insect
• Northern Kurdish: mêrî — insect
• Northern Kurdish: gêrik — insect
• Kyrgyz: кумурска (kumurska) — insect
• Lak: митӏикьукьу (mitʼiqʼuqʼu) — insect
• Lamkang: phaivang — insect
• Lao: ມົດ (mot) — insect
• Latgalian: skudre — insect
• Latgalian: skutele — insect
• Latin: formīca — insect
• Latvian: skudra — insect
• Lezgi: цегв — insect
• Limburgish: aomezeik — insect
• Lithuanian: skruzdėlė — insect
• Lithuanian: skruzdė — insect
• Low German: Eemk — insect
• Low German: Miegaamke — insect
• Low German: Miegeem — insect
• Low German: Miegeemk — insect
• Low German: Miegeemke — insect
• Low German: Miegreem — insect
• Low German: Mier — insect
• Lü: ᦷᦙᧆ (mod) — insect
• Luxembourgish: Seechomes — insect
• Luxembourgish: Seejomes — insect
• Maasai: enkalaoni — insect
• Macedonian: мравка (mravka) — insect
• Malagasy: vitsika — insect
• Malay: semut — insect
• Brunei Malay: samut — insect
• Malayalam: ഉറുമ്പ് (uṟumpŭ) — insect
• Maltese: nemla — insect
• Manchu: ᠶᡝᡵᡥᡠᠸᡝ (yerhuwe) — insect
• Mansaka: surum — insect
• Manx: sniengan — insect
• Māori: pokopokorua — insect
• Māori: pokorua — insect
• Māori: rōroro — insect
• Maranao: anai — insect
• Marathi: मुंगी (muṅgī) — insect
• Mauritian Creole: fourmi — insect
• Mazanderani: ملیجه — insect
• Megleno-Romanian: furnigă — insect
• Central Melanau: nged — insect
• Meriam: izrum — insect
• Middle English: ampte — insect
• Central Sierra Miwok: tisí·najy- — insect
• Miyako: 蟻 (āz) — insect
• Mizo: fanghmir — insect
• Moksha: панжам (panžam) — insect
• Mongolian: шоргоолж (šorgoolž) — insect
• Mongolian: шургуулж (šurguulž) — insect
• Mongolian: ᠰᠢᠷᠭᠤᠯᠵᠢ (sirɣulǰi) — insect
• Tagal Murut: kilau — insect
• Khiamniungan Naga: màu — insect
• Nahuatl: azcatl — insect
• Nanai: силуктэ (silukte) — insect
• Navajo: wóláchííʼ — insect
• Nepali: कमिला (kamilā) — insect
• Newar: इमू (imū) — insect
• Ngiyambaa: piipuru — insect
• Nheengatu: tasiwa — insect
• Nivkh: озр (ozr) — insect
• Norman: freunmion — insect
• Norman: frémîn — insect
• Norwegian Bokmål: maur — insect
• Norwegian Nynorsk: maur — insect
• Nyunga: budjin — insect
• Nyunga: burdak — insect
• Nyunga: dhudula — insect
• Nyunga: karrart — insect
• Nyunga: kwelka — insect
• Occitan: formiga — insect
• Odia: ପିମ୍ପୁଡି (pimpuḍi) — insect
• Ojibwe: enigoons — insect
• Okinawan: 蟻 (ai) — insect
• Okinoerabu: 蟻 (ani) — insect
• Church Slavic: мравии (mravii) — insect
• Church Slavic: мравьи (mravĭi) — insect
• Old East Slavic: моровии (morovii) — insect
• Old English: ǣmete — insect
• Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰆𐰢𐰆𐰺𐰽𐰍𐰀 — insect
• Oromo: tuchee — insect
• Ossetian: мӕлдзыг (mælʒyg) — insect
• Paiwan: sasiq — insect
• Pangasinan: gilata — insect
• Pannonian Rusyn: брамушка (bramuška) — insect
• Pannonian Rusyn: ґрамушка (gramuška) — insect
• Papiamentu: vruminga — insect
• Pashto: مېږى (meǵáy) — insect
• Dari: مورْچَه (mōrča) — insect
• Dari: مور (mōr) — insect
• Iranian Persian: مورْچِه (murče) — insect
• Iranian Persian: مور (mur) — insect
• Pichinglis: nyɔní — insect
• Pijin: anis — insect
• Pitjantjatjara: minga — insect
• Plautdietsch: Eemskje — insect
• Polish: mrówka — insect
• Portuguese: formiga — insect
• Prasuni: womī — insect
• Punjabi: ਕੀੜੀ (kīṛī) — insect
• Quechua: sisi — insect
• Quechua: tixa — insect
• Rohingya: fiáñra — insect
• Romani: kir — insect
• Romanian: furnică — insect
• Romansh: furmicla — insect
• Russian: мураве́й (muravéj) — insect
• Russian: мура́шка (muráška) — insect
• Russian: мураве́ль (muravélʹ) — insect
• Saisiyat: 'ae'aewzaeh — insect
• Inari-Sami: kutkâ — insect
• Kildin-Sami: ко̄ттк (kōttk) — insect
• Lule-Sami: gårkkå — insect
• Northern Sami: gotka — insect
• Pite Sami: gåttkå — insect
• Pite Sami: gårrkå — insect
• Skolt-Sami: kotkk — insect
• Southern Sami: garhke — insect
• Ter Sami: kottk — insect
• Ume-Sami: gåŧkka — insect
• Samoan: loi — insect
• Sanskrit: वम्र (vamrá) — insect
• Sanskrit: पिपीलिका (pipīlikā) — insect
• Santali: ᱢᱩᱡ (muc’) — insect
• Sardinian: formíca — insect
• Sardinian: formiga — insect
• Scottish Gaelic: seangan — insect
• Serbo-Croatian: мра̑в — insect
• Serbo-Croatian: mrȃv — insect
• Seychellois Creole: fourmi — insect
• Shan: မူတ်ႉ (mṵ̂ut) — insect
• Sherpa: གྲོག་མ (grog ma) — insect
• Sicilian: furmicula — insect
• Sicilian: fummicula — insect
• Sinhalese: කුහුඹුවා (kuhumbuwā) — insect
• Slovak: mravec — insect
• Slovene: mravlja — insect
• Somali: qudhaanjo — insect
• Somali: quraansho — insect
• Lower Sorbian: mroja — insect
• Upper Sorbian: mrowja — insect
• Sotho: lerwana — insect
• Spanish: hormiga — insect
• Spanish: huasho — insect
• Spanish: shishi — insect
• Sudovian: zangis — insect
• Sundanese: sireum — insect
• Svan: მჷრშკ (məršḳ) — insect
• Swahili: sisimizi — insect
• Swahili: siafu — insect
• Swedish: myra — insect
• Swedish: pissmyra — insect
• Sylheti: ꠙꠤꠙꠠꠣ (fifoṛa) — insect
• Tabasaran: зимз (zimz) — insect
• Tagalog: langgam — insect
• Tagalog: guyam — insect
• Tai Dam: ꪶꪣꪒ (ꞌmột) — insect
• Tajik: мӯрча (mürča) — insect
• Tajik: мӯр (mür) — insect
• Tamil: எறும்பு (eṟumpu) — insect
• Taos: į̏ęmę̀kiʼína — insect
• Tarifit: takeṭṭuft — insect
• Tarifit: tikeḍfet — insect
• Tat: мужинэ — insect
• Tatar: кырмыска (qırmısqa) — insect
• Tausug: sanam — insect
• Telugu: చీమ (cīma) — insect
• Thai: มด (mót) — insect
• Northern Thai: ᨾᩫ᩠ᨯ — insect
• Tibetan: གྲོག་མ (grog ma) — insect
• Tigrinya: ጻጸ (ṣaṣä) — insect
• Tocharian B: warme — insect
• Tokunoshima: 蟻 (ari) — insect
• Tongan: lō — insect
• Torres Strait Creole: anis — insect
• Turkish: karınca — insect
• Turkish: karışka — insect
• Turkish: komursga — insect
• Ottoman Turkish: قرنجه (karınca) — insect
• Turkmen: garynja — insect
• Tuvan: кымыскаяк (kımıskayak) — insect
• Tzotzil: xinich — insect
• Udmurt: кузьыли (kuźyľi) — insect
• Ukrainian: мура́шка (muráška) — insect
• Ukrainian: мура́ха (muráxa) — insect
• Urdu: چِیُون٘ٹی (ciyū̃ṭī) — insect
• Urdu: چْیُون٘ٹی (cyū̃ṭī) — insect
• Urdu: چِین٘ٹی (cī̃ṭī) — insect
• Urdu: چِین٘ٹی (cī̃ṭī) — insect
• Uyghur: چۈمۈلە (chümüle) — insect
• Uzbek: chumoli — insect
• Uzbek: qumursqa — insect
• Venetan: formìga — insect
• Vietnamese: kiến — insect
• Vilamovian: ȫmys — insect
• Volapük: furmid — insect
• Volapük: fum — insect
• Walloon: frumijhe — insect
• Walloon: copixhe — insect
• Waray-Waray: tubák — insect
• Waray-Waray: harumigas — insect
• Warlpiri: pingi — insect
• Welsh: morgrug — insect
• Welsh: morgrugyn — insect
• Wik-Mungkan: moolan — insect
• Wiradjuri: dhuurruuy — insect
• Woiwurrung: burruñ — insect
• Woiwurrung: murrub — insect
• Wolaytta: qaacuwa — insect
• Wolof: melentaan — insect
• Yaeyama: 蟻 (āra) — insect
• Yakut: кымырдаҕас (kïmïrdağas) — insect
• Yiddish: מוראַשקע (murashke) — insect
• Yindjibarndi: waruma — insect
• Yonaguni: 蟻 (aya) — insect
• Yoron: 蟻 (anku) — insect
• Yoruba: èèrà — insect
• Záparo: kwanáhukwa — insect
• Isthmus Zapotec: birí — insect
• Zazaki: murce — insect
• Zazaki: murcele — insect
• Zazaki: morcele (diq) — insect
• Zhuang: moed — insect
• Zulu: intuthane — insect
• Zulu: intuthwane — insect