verb/fuʁ.mi.je/
to swarm, to be full of; to tingle
“Le champ fourmille de chardons : / Quel paradis pour le vieil âne !” — The field is swarming with thistles: / What a paradise for the old donkey!
Inherited from Old French formiier (with the suffix -iller, from Latin -iculāre), from Latin formīcāre. Cf. also Italian formicolare, Spanish hormiguear.