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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/āmaitijā
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from unstressed *uʀ- (“off, away”) + [1][2], or perhaps *āmā (“larva”), + *maitan (“to cut off”) + *-jā, if not a substrate borrowing.[3]
Noun
*āmaitijā f[1]
- ant
Inflection
ōn-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | ||
Nominative | *āmaitijā | |
Genitive | *āmaitijōn | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *āmaitijā | *āmaitijōn |
Accusative | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōn |
Genitive | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōnō |
Dative | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum |
Instrumental | *āmaitijōn | *āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum |
Synonyms
- *miurijā
Descendants
- Old English: ǣmete, ǣmette, ǣmytte
- Middle English: ampte, amte, emete, amete, emotte, emot, ante, empt, empte, amote
- English: ant, emmet
- Scots: emmot, emott, imat
- ⇒ Yola: emothee
- Middle English: ampte, amte, emete, amete, emotte, emot, ante, empt, empte, amote
- Old Frisian:
- West Frisian: eameler, eamel, eamelder
- Old Saxon: *āmētia
- Middle Low German: êmete, emete, âmete, amete, âmente, êmte, empte, êmeke, emeke
- German Low German:
- Altmärkisch: Emk, Êmk
- Westphalian:
- Dortmundisch: Hampelte, Ampelte
- Sauerländisch: Amperte
- German Low German:
- Middle Low German: êmete, emete, âmete, amete, âmente, êmte, empte, êmeke, emeke
- Old Dutch: *āmēta
- Middle Dutch: âmete, emte
- Dutch: emt, empt (eastern dialects)
- Middle Dutch: âmete, emte
- Old High German: āmeiza
- Middle High German: āmeize
- Alemannic German: Ameisse
- Cimbrian: amasa
- German: Ameise, Emse (obsolete)
- → Luxembourgish: Ameis
- Hunsrik: Omeis
- Luxembourgish: Omes (chiefly in Seechomes)
- Central Franconian:
- Ripuarian: Secksoemel
- → Limburgish: aomezeik
- Middle High German: āmeize
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Ameise”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 24: “wg. *ǣ-maitjōn”
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*maitanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*amaitjo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24