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antlet

noun

Etymology

From ant + -let.

  1. inherited from *meh₂y-✻ — “to cut”
  2. inherited from *ē-✻ — “off, away”
  3. inherited from *āmaitijā✻
  4. inherited from æmete — “ant”
  5. inherited from ampte
  6. suffixed as antlet — “ant + let”

Definitions

  1. A small immature ant

    A small immature ant; an antling.

    • […] if any one of the antlets wanted to come out of his silken covering he could be helped to cut his way through […]
    • I wondered whether ants found it necessary to hold classes of instruction for all upcoming antlets in order to maintain their organized and busy mound-building society.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antlet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA