μύρμηξ

Etymology
From. Related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 and perhaps 🇨🇬. Despite the suffix, which typically indicates origin from  (cf. Beekes 2014), Beekes considers this to be a genuinely Indo-European term which underwent various tabooistic deformations, comparing 🇨🇬 (see ), and notes that similar forms with a velar suffix are found in other Indo-European cognates: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare. ~ may be related as well.

Noun

 * 1) ant
 * 2) a mythical gold-digging animal sometimes identified with ants

Derived terms

 * > myrmidon

Descendants

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