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emmet¹

  • /ˈɛmɪt/

Rhymes with -ɛmɪt

Where it comes from

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”).

noun emmets

  1. archaic, dialectal An ant. He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]
  2. Cornwall, derogatory A tourist.

Emmet²

Where it comes from

From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.

proper noun Emmett

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A ghost town in Queensland, Australia.
  4. A city in Nevada and Hempstead, Arkansas.
  5. A village in Holt County, Nebraska.
  6. An unincorporated community in McLean County, North Dakota.
  7. A ghost town in Union County, South Dakota.
  8. A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
  9. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

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@misc{emmet_2026,
  title = {emmet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/emmet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}