ant

• n.アリ
• n.（アリ）人名；（ツ、フェン）アリ

古英語aemette, antから、西ゲルマン語*amaitjo, to cut down, から、*ai, to leave, to remove, *mai, to cut, to cut, 語源的にはmaimと同じ。文字通り、切り倒す、切り刻む、ひいては、分節する、分節にする、アリを指して使われる。

ant

ant: [OE] The word ant appears to carry the etymological sense ‘creature that cuts off or bites off’. Its Old English form, ?mette, was derived from a hypothetical Germanic compound *aimaitjōn, formed from the prefix *ai- ‘off, away’ and the root *mait- ‘cut’ (modern German has the verb meissen ‘chisel, carve’): thus, ‘the biter’.

The Old English word later developed along two distinct strands: in one, it became emmet, which survived into the 20th century as a dialectal form; while in the other it progressed through amete and ampte to modern English ant. If the notion of ‘biting’ in the naming of the ant is restricted to the Germanic languages (German has ameise), the observation that it and its nest smell of urine has been brought into play far more widely.

The Indo-European root *meigh-, from which ultimately we get micturate ‘urinate’ [18], was also the source of several words for ‘ant’, including Greek múrmēx (origin of English myrmecology ‘study of ants’, and also perhaps of myrmidon [14] ‘faithful follower’, from the Myrmidons, a legendary Greek people who loyally followed their king Achilles in the Trojan war, and who were said originally to have been created from ants), Latin formīca (hence English formic acid [18], produced by ants, and formaldehyde [19]), and Danish myre.

It also produced Middle English mire ‘ant’, the underlying meaning of which was subsequently reinforced by the addition of piss to give pismire, which again survived dialectally into the 20th century.

ant (n.)

c. 1500, from Middle English ampte (late 14c.), from Old English ?mette "ant," from West Germanic *amaitjo (cognates: Old High German ameiza, German Ameise) from a compound of bases *ai- "off, away" + *mai- "cut," from PIE *mai- "to cut" (cognates: maim). Thus the insect's name is, etymologically, "the biter off."

As tycke as ameten crepet in an amete hulle [chronicle of Robert of Gloucester, 1297]

Emmet survived into 20c. as an alternative form. White ant "termite" is from 1729. To have ants in one's pants "be nervous and fidgety" is from 1934, made current by a popular song; antsy embodies the same notion.

1. One ant -hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke.

千里の堤防がアリの穴から決壊した。

2.One ant hole may cause the collapse of a thousand-li dyke.

千里の堤が蟻の穴から決壊した。

3.The ant is a social insect.

アリは群居昆虫である。

4. Ant a java project generation tool with a flexible，user-friendly advantages.

英語原書。 ant はjavaプロジェクト生成ツールとして、柔軟で使いやすい利点がある。

5.In this tutorial，you will learn the Ant Java tool for generating projects.

このチュートリアルでは、 Ant というJavaプロジェクト生成ツールを学習します。