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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
  • Proto-Armenian:
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *marwis
  • Proto-Celtic: *morwis f[1]
    • Proto-Brythonic:
      • Breton: meryenenn; merion (collective)
      • Cornish: mwrrian
      • Middle Welsh: myr
    • 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: *mormīkā
    • Latin: formīca (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Tocharian:

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. with 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
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