Word Origin Summary

*mormīkā is attested in Proto-Italic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• formica

  Latin · inherited from

• -form

  English · derived from

• fruminga

  Papiamento · derived from

• формальдегид

  Kazakh · derived from

• furmicula

  Corsican · derived from

• vruminga

  Papiamento · derived from

• fremin

  Bourguignon · inherited from

• formicarium

  Dutch · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root