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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/āmaitijā

This Proto-West Germanic 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from unstressed *uʀ- (“off, away”) +‎ [1][2], or perhaps *āmā (“larva”), + *maitan (“to cut off”) +‎ *-jā (agent suffix), if not a substrate borrowing.[3]

Noun

*āmaitijā f[1]

  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

Descendants
  • Old English: ǣmete, ǣmette, ǣmytte
  • Old Frisian:
  • 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
  • Old Dutch: *āmēta
  • Old High German: āmeiza
    • Middle High German: āmeize
      • Alemannic German: Ameisse
      • Cimbrian: amasa
      • German: Ameise, Emse (obsolete)
      • Hunsrik: Omeis
      • Luxembourgish: Omes (chiefly in Seechomes)
      • Central Franconian:
        Ripuarian: Secksoemel
      • → Limburgish: aomezeik

References
  1. 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”
  2. Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*maitanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
  3. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*amaitjo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24
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