amtik

Hanunoo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *me(n)tik.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔamˈtik/ [ʔɐmˈtɪk]
  • Rhymes: -ik
  • Syllabification: am‧tik

Noun

amtík (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜫ᜴ᜦᜲᜣ᜴) (zoology)

  1. a large red ground ant which has a stinging bite, possibly part of Odontomachus

Further reading

  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 28
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*me(n)tik”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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