Ant - Wikipedia
2021-8-29 · Etymology. The word ant and its chiefly dialectal form emmet come from ante, emete of Middle English, which come from ǣmette of Old English, and these are all related to the dialectal Dutch emt and the Old High German āmeiza, from which comes the modern German Ameise.All of these words come from West Germanic *ǣmaitjōn, and the original meaning of the word was 'the biter' (from Proto ...
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