Proto-West Germanic *āmaitijā

→ English ant (inherited)

→ Old English æmette (inherited)

→ Cimbrian amasa (inherited)

→ German Ameise (inherited)

→ Middle English ampte (inherited)

→ Middle Low German emete (inherited)

→ Alemannic German Ameisse (inherited)

→ Limburgish aomezeik (derived)

→ Yola emothee (inherited)