red ant
- Semantic Field
- flora-fauna
- Part of Speech
- Meaning Spanish
- Meaning Portuguese
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Sorry, we have no imagery here.
Languages
| Language | Linnean Name | Orthographic Form | Phonemicized Form | Gloss as in Source | Etymology Code | Proto-Form | Proto-Language | Loan Source | Etymology Notes | Wanderwort Status | Etyma Set | Range of Term | Word Structure | Word Structure Notes | Classifier | Classifier Notes | Hypernym | Source | Association with Social Categories | Ritual/Mythologically Significant | Ritual Notes | Food Source | Food Notes | Medicinal | Medicinal Notes | How Collected | Who Collects | How Prepared | Psychotropic | Psychotropic Notes | Traded | Trade Notes | Distribution | Habitat | Dangerous | Ethnobiology Notes | Species Notes | General Notes |
|---|
Language | Linnean Name | Orthographic Form | Phonemicized Form | Gloss as in Source | Etymology Code | Proto-Form | Proto-Language | Loan Source | Etymology Notes | Wanderwort Status | Etyma Set | Range of Term | Word Structure | Word Structure Notes | Classifier | Classifier Notes | Hypernym | Source | Association with Social Categories | Ritual/Mythologically Significant | Ritual Notes | Food Source | Food Notes | Medicinal | Medicinal Notes | How Collected | Who Collects | How Prepared | Psychotropic | Psychotropic Notes | Traded | Trade Notes | Distribution | Habitat | Dangerous | Ethnobiology Notes | Species Notes | General Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankalachi Toloim | Solenopsis spp | kā-nit | red ant | loan | Yokuts | Proto-NimYokuts *k'e:nich (Golla 1964:60) | broader (all ants) | underived | C. H. Merriam 72-79 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Big Smokey Valley Shoshone | Solenopsis spp | hu'nitan | red ant | unique | same | underived | Crum & Dayley 1993:266 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cahuilla | Solenopsis spp | ʔánet | ˈʔanet | ant, big ant | inheritance | *ʔalɨn- | Uto-Aztecan | S44 (Stubbs 2009:44) | broader; also generic for “ant” at least in Mountain and Wanikik; unclear for Desert Cahuilla but generic for “big ant” there; Merriam confirms “red ant” | other complex | 7ane-t | -7aʃ "pet" | possibly possessive classifier -7ash | Seiler&Hioki 1979:16 | no info | 1 | 0 | ants and larvae eaten | no info | gathered (wild) | All | anthill swarms with larvae pushed into pits with hot rocks and roasted, also boiled | 0 | 0 | All Americas | Diverse habitats | no | |||||||||||
| Central Sierra Miwok | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chemehuevi | Solenopsis spp | wahnts | Red ant (stings) | unique | same as word for “antelope” | same | other complex | has -tsI Diminutive | Merriam 59:537 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Barbareno | Solenopsis spp | tiʃ'iʎ'il | red ant | inheritance | Central Chumash only | same root in Ineseno | underived | Beeler 1978:186 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ineseno | Solenopsis spp | tish-oo-lun | red ant | inheritance | Central Chumash only | same root in Barbareno | underived | Merriam 55:19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Obispeno | Solenopsis spp | t qala' | large red ant | inheritance | *tkaya' | Proto-Chumash | sound symbolism changes consonant | other complex | t- | Klar 1977:64 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chumash Ventureno | Solenopsis spp | sutülhüL | rose-colored ant | unique | underived | maybe a redup here | JPH III:69:0081 from FL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cocopa | Solenopsis spp | šmuyúły ɂaxwáţ | red ant | unique | no info | phrase | ant red (calque?) | Crawford 1989 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comanche | Solenopsis spp | ekaɨnɨɨ | red ant; large red ant | unique | narrower (a kind of red ant) | phrase | eka-ɨnɨɨ red-bug | Robinson & Armagost 1990:164; | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cupeño | Solenopsis spp | anat | ʹʔanat | ant, red ant | inheritance | *ʔalɨN- | Uto-Aztecan | S44 (Stubbs 2009:44) | broader (both red ants and generic for ants) | other complex | ʹʔana-t ant-npn | -ʔaʃ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | Hill & Nolasquez 1973:151 | no info | 1 | used in boy's ant ordeal | 0 | probably larvae eaten | no info | probably bites used therapeutically outside of ordeal | gathered (wild) | men | live ants saved for ordeal | 0 | 0 | Americas | diverse habitats | no | |||||||||
| Esselen | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gabrielino | Solenopsis spp | ahn'-naht' (red ant) | ˈʔa:nat | red ant | inheritance | *ʔalɨN- | Uto-Aztecan | S44 (Stubbs 2009:44) | same | other complex | ˈʔa:na-t red.ant-npn | -ʔaʧ "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | http://www.archive.org/stream/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_60#page/n415/mode/2up; p. 431 | no info | 1 | in ant ordeal | 0 | McC 121 | 1 | swallowed for medicine (McC) | gathered (wild) | all | larvae often eaten raw as found McC 121 | 0 | 0 | Americas | Diverse habitats | no | |||||||||
| Iipay 'Aa | Solenopsis spp | chemilly | ant, red ant | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Mo. chamaduuly, Co. šmuyúły, Yavapai čmyúl | broader (generid for ant) | underived | Couro & Hutcheson 1973 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kawaiisu | Solenopsis spp | taasuɁu-vi | Red ant | inheritance | *tasi'a | Proto-Numic | Stubbs 49 (2008;45) Central and Southern Numic only | same | other complex | taasuɁu-vi ant-ABS | Zigmond et al. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Kiliwa | Solenopsis spp | tlpaa | large red ant | unique | narrower (a kind of red ant) | underived | Mixco 1985 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kitanemuk | Solenopsis spp | ʔanɨht | ˈʔanɨht | ant sp.: big, red, applied to body for pain | inheritance | *ʔalɨN- | Uto-Aztecan | S44 (Stubbs 2009:44) | same | other complex | ˈʔanɨh-t red.ant-npn | -ʔacit "pet" | possessive classifier for animals | Anderton 1988:270 | no info | 1 | ingested in vision quest | 0 | 1 | apply to body, or eat for pain | gathered (wild) | men | see medicinal notes | 0 | noted as a hallucinogen by Blackburn & Bean 1978:467 | 0 | Americas | Diverse habitats | no | |||||||||
| Lake Miwok | Solenopsis spp | 7awáakan | red ants | unique | underived | Callaghan 1965 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luiseño | Solenopsis spp | 7áanat | ˈʔa:nat | California harvesting ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus | inheritance | *ʔalɨn- | S44 (Stubbs 2009:44) | narrower (a specific kind of red ant, not all red ants) | other complex | ˈʔa:na-t red.ant.sp-non.possessed.noun | Harrington 1978:164 | no info | 1 | used in ant ordeal (Harrington 1978:164) | 0 | 1 | “the medicinal ant of these people” (Harrington 1978:164), a blood medicine, for rheumatism. Could be swallowed or put on afflicted part to bite it. | gathered (wild) | men | kept live for ant ordeal | 0 | 0 | Americas | diverse habitats | no | |||||||||||||
| Maidu | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mojave | Solenopsis spp | chamaduuly | red ant | inheritance | broader (any ant, with red ant as prototype) | underived | Munro et al.1992 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mutsun | Solenopsis spp | oTol, oTon | red ant | inheritance | Costanoan | Shaul 1986:699 notes Esselen otsoli-pša “ant”; also Rumsen oto | underived | Mason 1916:427 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nisenan | Solenopsis spp | pan-nan'-nok, u'-lah-lok; ut'-ah-ut'-ah | small red ant, sm.r.a./ large r.a. | unique | reduplicated | Merriam 57:243 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Paiute | Solenopsis spp | hooedu, tsahooedda | red ants | unique | note that at Walker Lake Merriam has hooedu as “black ants” | same | derived | has -tɨ deverbalizing suffix, what is hooe??? | Yerington Dictionary | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Sierra Miwok | Solenopsis spp | pah'-tĕ-mah | same as #89 | red ant (bites) (same as “Ant” generic?) | unique | perhaps same root as Miss paTa:ka- | other complex | -y nominalizer | Merriam 57:403 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plains Miwok | Solenopsis spp | wete7te7 tisi:naj | red ants | unique | C asks “loan translation”? | phrase | red ant | Callaghan 1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan A | Solenopsis spp | le-ká(:)t | ant (Merriam: red ant (hairy) 55:381 | unique | Salinan | underived | could this be L- prefix? Turner 1987:118? | Mason 1918:123; Turner 1983:234 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Salinan M | Solenopsis spp | ilkát | ant (Merriam “red ant, hairy” 55:381 | unique | Salinan | other complex | l- probably prefix | Mason 1918:123 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Seri (Comcaac) | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serrano | Solenopsis spp | ar:nyr-ht | red ant (CHM); KCH a large kind of ant | inheritance | *7alɨN- | Uto-Aztecan | S44 (Stubbs 2009:44) | other complex | -t NPN | Merriam 60:111 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Paiute | Solenopsis spp | tacɨavi | Red ant (Merriam: “big kind”) | inheritance | *tasi'a | Proto-Numic | Stubbs 49 (2008:45) Centrland Southern Numic only | narrower (a kind of red ant) | other complex | has -pi ABS | Sapir 1930:671 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Sierra Miwok | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Ute | Solenopsis spp | ?aká-tAsí?ą-vI | red ant | calque | English | red-ant; see remark on black ant | same | phrase | red-ant-ABS | Givon 1979 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tübatulabal | Solenopsis spp | anünt | ʔaˈnɨnt | red ant, yellow ant | inheritance | *ʔalɨN- | Uto-Aztecan | S44 (Stubbs 2009:44) | broader (includes yellow ants) | other complex | ʔaˈnɨn-t red.ant-npn | Hill 2010:9 | no info | 1 | live ants wrapped in balls of eagle down swallowed for visions | 0 | Voegelin 1938:12 | 1 | live ants wrapped in balls of eagle down swallowed for ailments | gathered (wild) | men | see notes | 0 | “the effect produced when the ants bit the lining of the stomach was similar to that produced by drinking jimsonweed” (Voegelin 1938:5) | 0 | Americas | Diverse habitats | no | ||||||||||
| Tümpisa Shoshone | Solenopsis spp | tongkwaapi | red ant | inheritance | *toni- | Proto-Uto-Aztecan | Goes with Stubbs SUA 46 *totoni, and with “sting” | same | other complex | tong-kwaa-pi sting-?-CL | pi | Dayley 1989:294 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wappo | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Washo | Solenopsis spp | 7á:ni | red ant “fuzzy and stings” | loan | Northern Paiute | Northern Paiute anebe (/anɨbɨ/, PUA *anɨN | underived | Merriam 55:313; WPD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Western Mono | Solenopsis spp | tadaGo' | red ants | unique | same | underived | Bethel et al.:195 | no info | 1 | 0 | no info | no info | N/A | no info | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Wintu | Solenopsis spp | t'i:do:q | ant, red ant | inheritance | *t'edVq | Wintun | Shepherd 2005 | underived | Schlichter 1981 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yavapai | Solenopsis spp | čmyúl | red or fire ant | inheritance | Proto-Yuman | Co. šmuyúły, Mo. Mo. chamaduuly | unknown | Shaterian 1983 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Palewyami | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yawdanchi | Solenopsis spp | kakau | large red ant used as counterirritant | inheritance | Nim-Yokuts | Same in Merriam's Chukchansi, Gashowu lists | same | underived | Kroeber 1961:220 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yokuts Yowlumne | Solenopsis spp | k'e:ne:c' | red ant (Merriam confirms “small red ant” 58:563); | inheritance | *k'e:nič' | Nim-Yokuts | Golla 1964:60 | same | other complex | looks like the -ic' agentive suffix | Newman 1944:191 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Yuki | Solenopsis spp | hun-tum she'-mah us'-sah MW | red ant | unique | phrase | huntum shima is a black ant, us-sah red??? | Sawyer & Schlichter 1984 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yuma | Solenopsis spp | missing | missing | missing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | no |
| Language |
|---|
Showing 1 to 46 of 46 entries