It's interesting to consider the commonality of the word in certain languages:
anisner - Armenian ants - English eamelder - West Frisian ameisen - German ant’s - Georgian ants - Serbian
miere - Afrikaans mravki - Bulgarian mravi - Bosnian mravi - Croatian myrer - Danish mieren - Dutch muurahaisia - Finnish ta myrmínkia - Greek maur - Icelandic kumurskalar - Kirgistanian mravki - Macedonian maur - Norwegian mrówki - Polish murav'i - Russian mravce - Slovakian mrave - Slovenian myror - Swedish mūrcagon - Tajik mravenci - Chech murakhy - Ukraine murašy - White Russian
Of course there are also several languages using the Latin core of the word. But the above shows, I believe in slight distinction from conventional scholastic thought, that the root expressed in Germanic related languages is by far the most pervasive, even if those languages are spoken in countries quite distant from each other. This may confirm what the revelators tell us about the origin of the one-time common Indo-European tongue.
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