Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/morwi-

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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/morwi-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Indo-European

Noun

*morwi-

1. ant

Descendants

• Proto-Albanian: *mārwa
  • Albanian: morr
• Proto-Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: մրջիւն (mrǰiwn)
    • Armenian: մրջյուն (mrǰyun)
• Proto-Balto-Slavic: *marwis
  • Proto-Slavic: *morvь, *morvъ (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Celtic: *morwis f[1]
  • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Breton: meryenenn; merion (collective)
    • Cornish: mwrrian
    • Middle Welsh: myr
      • Welsh: mŷr, myrr
  • Old Irish: moirb
• Proto-Germanic: *mauraz, *miurijǭ (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Hellenic: (with assimilation *morwo- > *mormo-)
  • Ancient Greek: μύρμηξ (múrmēx) (see there for further descendants)
  • Ancient Greek: μύρμος (múrmos)
• Proto-Indo-Iranian: *marwíš m (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Italic:
  • Latin: formīca (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Tocharian:
  • Tocharian B: warme

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*morwi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 278

• Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 148