different between emmet vs emmer

English

Etymology

From Middle English emete, from Old English ?mete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?t/
• Rhymes: -?m?t

Noun

emmet (plural emmets)

1. (dialectal or archaic) An ant.
   • , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.47:

     He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]

   • 1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c
   • before 1729, Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you":

     What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?

     An Emmet match an Emperor in might?

   • 1789, William Blake, Songs of Innocence, A Dream:

     Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an emmet lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay.

   • 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, IV.430:

     [A benignity that] to the emmet gives / Her foresight, and intelligence that makes / The tiny creatures strong by social league.
2. (Cornwall, derogatory) A tourist.

See also

• grockle

Anagrams

• Temme

Estonian

Noun

emmet

1. partitive singular of emme

Tuareg

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic. Cognate with Egyptian mwt and Arabic ???? (m?ta)

Verb

emmet

1. to die

References

English

Etymology

First used in 1908; borrowed from German Emmer, from Middle High German emeri, from Old High German amari, derivative of amar(o), which in turn gave rise to the obsolescent German synonym Amelkorn (“amelcorn”). Further etymology unknown.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m?/
• Rhymes: -?m?(?)

Noun

emmer (countable and uncountable, plural emmers)

1. A species of wheat, Triticum dicoccon, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains. [from 1908]

   Synonym: farro

   Coordinate terms: spelt, einkorn wheat

   Hypernym: hulled wheat

Synonyms

• (species of wheat): Triticum dicoccon, Triticum dicoccon subsp. dicoccon

Derived terms

• wild emmer (Triticum dicoccoides (a hybrid of Triticum urartu and a wild goatgrass. such as Aegilops searsii or Aegilops speltoides))

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Grains

Further reading

• emmer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• memer

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ?mer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.

Noun

emmer (plural emmers, diminutive emmertjie)

1. bucket (container)

Descendants

• Xhosa: i-emele

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.m?r/, [??.m?r]
• Hyphenation: em?mer
• Rhymes: -?m?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ?mer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.

Noun

emmer m (plural emmers, diminutive emmertje n)

1. bucket (container)

   Synonym: aker

Derived terms

• melkemmer
• putemmer
• wateremmer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: emmer
• ? Indonesian: ember
  • ? Ternate: ember

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Emmer.

Noun

emmer m (uncountable)

1. emmer, Triticum dicoccon

   Synonym: tweekoren

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

emmer

1. first-person singular present indicative of emmeren
2. imperative of emmeren

Anagrams

• remme

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch iomer (“always”), a compound of io (“always”) + *m?ro (“more”) (from Proto-Germanic *maizô).

Adverb

emmer

1. always
2. at least, in any case
3. at all costs
4. ever

Alternative forms

• immer

Descendants

• Dutch: immer

Etymology 2

Noun

emmer m

1. Alternative form of ammer

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “emmer (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “emmer (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page III