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