{"id":5264,"date":"2020-05-16T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/?p=5264"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:55:52","slug":"ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2020\/05\/16\/ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words for <strong>ant<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fractality23\/8843866341\/in\/photolist-etv8ma-8t8HS3-7g2xoD-d15v35-gk9Qtu-gk9BvV-e6mUdZ-5MhqRk-oWLj8Y-aaT5ju-PWkm2b-yiBTZ-c2sdMy-9T9Dnx-kzAtH-csZoP3-SFzLVM-HPqB2t-eRqF7m-99kRbG-8BYH3E-9LXbXX-3JMYfF-drzFK2-dY4w5B-np217v-GTXxhZ-kkM14X-bGsWE6-f3AzGP-nJeCBz-ejgFsg-bq4sGw-jgao6-dXkezL-NR1fwN-nSLf4L-AYXXB7-cPtPU3-8Wqbio-edSzKR-4UTtgR-QQw4Hm-PPr4jZ-edSyzc-NV6bwE-b4AJ7p-fiDghB-8zELEK-y7zMKS\" title=\"Formica cf. rufibarbis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7397\/8843866341_58b8030af3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Formica cf. rufibarbis\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Words marked with a * are reconstructions.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>seng\u00e1n<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>seng\u00e1n, seangan<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Irish (Gaeilge)<\/th>\n<td><strong>seang\u00e1n<\/strong> = ant<br \/>\n<strong>seang\u00e1nach<\/strong> = full of ants<br \/>\n<strong>nead seang\u00e1n<\/strong> = anthill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig)<\/th>\n<td><strong>seangan<\/strong> [\u0283\u025b\u014bgan] = ant, mean fellow<br \/>\n<strong>seangan &#8216;nad bhriogais<\/strong> = to be fidgety, have the jtters (ants in your breeches)<br \/>\n<strong>seangananach<\/strong> [\u0283\u025b\u014bgan\u0259x] = pertaining to or abounding in small ants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Manx (Gaelg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>sniengan<\/strong> = ant<br \/>\n<strong>snienganagh<\/strong> = ant-infested, formic<br \/>\n<strong>crongan sniengan<\/strong> = anthill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: possibly from the Old Irish <em>seng<\/em> (thin, slender. meagre) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/seang%C3%A1n\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Proto-Celtic<\/th>\n<td><strong>*morwis<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc)<\/th>\n<td><strong>moirb<\/strong> [mor\u02b2v\u02b2] = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>moirb<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Welsh (Kymraec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>myr<\/strong> = ant<br \/>\n<strong>myrion<\/strong> = ants<br \/>\n<strong>morgrug, morcrug<\/strong> = ants<br \/>\n<strong>morgrugyn, morcrugyon<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Welsh (Cymraeg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>m\u0177r, myrr<\/strong> [m\u0268\u02d0r\/mi\u02d0r] = ant<br \/>\n<strong>myrion<\/strong> = ants<br \/>\n<strong>myrdwyn<\/strong> = anthill<br \/>\n<strong>morgrug<\/strong> [\u02c8m\u0254r\u0261r\u0268\u031e\u0261 \/ \u02c8m\u0254r\u0261r\u026a\u0261] = ants (<em>from m\u0177r [ant] and crug [hill]<\/em>)<br \/>\n<strong>morgrugyn<\/strong> = ant<br \/>\n<strong>morgrugaidd, morgrugol<\/strong> = ant-like pertaining to ants, formic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Cornish<\/th>\n<td><strong>men\u01bfionen<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Cornish (Cernewec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>menwionen, meuwionen<\/strong> = ant, emmet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Cornish (Kernewek)<\/th>\n<td><strong>moryonen<\/strong> = ant, tourists<br \/>\n<strong>moryoner<\/strong> = anteater<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Old Breton<\/th>\n<td><strong>moriuon<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Middle Breton (Brezonec)<\/th>\n<td><strong>meryen<\/strong> = ant<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Breton (Brezhoneg)<\/th>\n<td><strong>merien<\/strong> [\u02c8m\u025br.j\u025bn] = ants<br \/>\n<strong>merionenn<\/strong> = ant<br \/>\n<strong>merionaer<\/strong> = anteater<br \/>\n<strong>merieneg<\/strong> [m\u025b.\u02c8rj\u1ebd\u02d0.n\u025bk] = anthill<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Etymology<\/strong>: from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*morwi-<\/em> (ant). Words from the same roots include <strong>formic<\/strong> (pertaining to ants) and <strong>pismire<\/strong> (ant &#8211; <em>archaic<\/em>) in English, <strong>fourmi<\/strong> (ant) in French,  <strong>mier<\/strong> (ant) in Dutch, <strong>maur<\/strong> (ant) in Icelandic and <strong>myra<\/strong> (ant) in Swedish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/morwi-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/m2e.php\">Online Manx Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teanglann.ie\/en\/fgb\/ceann\">Teanglann.ie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dil.ie\/\">eDIL &#8211; Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk\/sengoidelc\/duil-belrai\/english.html\">In D\u00fail B\u00e9lrai English &#8211; Old Irish glossary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\/browse?field_word_value=penn\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkaevraz.net\/dicobzh\/index.php\">Dictionaire Favereau<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brezhoneg.bzh\/87-termofis.htm\">TermOfis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wales.ac.uk\/Resources\/Documents\/Research\/CelticLanguages\/EnglishProtoCelticWordList.pdf\">English &#8211; ProtoCeltic WordList<\/a> (PDF), <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/EtymologicalDictionaryOfProtoCeltic\">Etymological Dictionary Of Proto Celtic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited2-468x60.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words for ant and related things in Celtic languages. Words marked with a * are reconstructions. Old Irish (Go\u00eddelc) seng\u00e1n = ant Middle Irish (Gaoidhealg) seng\u00e1n, seangan = ant Irish (Gaeilge) seang\u00e1n = ant seang\u00e1nach = full of ants nead seang\u00e1n = anthill Scottish Gaelic (G\u00e0idhlig) seangan [\u0283\u025b\u014bgan] = ant, mean fellow seangan &#8216;nad bhriogais [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,73,16,26,81,19,20,44,65,21,3,22,5,6,37,7,27,8,9,10,12,13,23,82,64,18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-animals","category-breton","category-kernewek-cornish","category-dutch-nederlands","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-icelandic-islenska","category-gaeilge-irish","category-language","category-gaelg-manx","category-middle-breton","category-middle-cornish","category-middle-irish","category-middle-welsh-kymraec","category-nouns","category-old-breton","category-old-cornish","category-old-irish-goidelc","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-gaidhlig-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish-espanol","category-swedish-svenska","category-cymraeg-welsh","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5264"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8041,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5264\/revisions\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}