emmet
/ˈɛmɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A surname.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A ghost town in Queensland, Australia.
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A village in Holt County, Nebraska.
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Example Sentences
- "He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]"
- "1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c"
- "What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?"
- "Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay."
- "[A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league."
- "We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā Old English ǣmete Middle English ampte English emmet From Middle English ampte, amte, amete, amote, ante, emete, emot, emotte, empt, empte, from Old English ǣmete, ǣmette, ǣmytte, ǣmætte (“ant”), from Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā (“ant”), of uncertain and debated origin (q.v.), but probably from Proto-Germanic *ē- (“off, away”) + *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Doublet of ant. Cognates Cognate with Yola emotee, emothee (“ant”), West Frisian eamel, eamelder, eameler (“ant”), Alemannic German Ameisse (“ant”), Bavarian Åmasn, Åmeisn (“ant”), Cimbrian amasa (“ant”), Dutch emt (“ant”), German Ameise, Emse (“ant”), Low German Emk (“ant”), Vilamovian ömys (“ant”), Yiddish אַמייזע (ameyze, “ant”).