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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]
- ant
Inflection
ōn-stem
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Singular
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Nominative
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*āmaitijā
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Genitive
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*āmaitijōn
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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*āmaitijā
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*āmaitijōn
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Accusative
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*āmaitijōn
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*āmaitijōn
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Genitive
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*āmaitijōn
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*āmaitijōnō
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Dative
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*āmaitijōn
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*āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum
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Instrumental
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*āmaitijōn
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*āmaitijōm, *āmaitijum
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Synonyms
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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”
- ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*maitanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 256
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*amaitjo-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24