Paraendroid

@futurebird
Look, what I just found:

@mapologies 🔗 https://mastodon.social/users/mapologies/statuses/116471504187488342
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Last map has ants in its pants

https://mapologies.com/bugs/

#insects #map #mapologies #etymology #etymologymap #ant #ants #languagemap

Most European languages are united by a common thread: the word for ant. From the Galician formiga to the Romanian furnică, and from Greek μυρμήγκι (myrmígki) to Finnish muurahainen. Surprising, huh? We can find the traces of a single Proto-Indo-European ancestor: *mórwis.

Bugs • M A P O L O G I E S

Etymology maps of different bugs like (bee, beetle, tick, grasshopper, and spider) in several languages

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Apr 26 at 4:45pmWeb
Show threadmyrmepropagandistApr 26

@Paraendroid @mapologies

English is so ODD. No one else is calling them ants. Why not formicas?

Show threadLanda Apr 27
@futurebird
Well, English can field the excuse that they’ve been living on an island and Hungarian has always been special, but I just realized how weird the German word „Ameise“ is compared to the neighboring languages
@Paraendroid @mapologies