Noun: myg
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | myg |
| Sg. definite | myggen |
| Pl. indefinite | myg |
| Pl. definite | myggene |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | mygs |
| Sg. definite | myggens |
| Pl. indefinite | mygs |
| Pl. definite | myggenes |
Sample Sentences
Etymology
1. From Old Danish and Old Norse myg, either borrowed from Middle Low German mügge, from Old Saxon mugga, from Proto-West Germanic *muggjā, from Proto-Germanic *mugjǭ (“midge, small fly”); or, from Proto-Germanic *mują (“small fly”).
2. See also with Norwegian, Swedish mygg, English midge, German Mücke. The West Nordic word, Old Norse mý, probably goes back to a different stem, *mują. See: Swedish Nouns '
mygg', English Nouns '
midge', German Nouns '
Mücke'.
Verbs referencing "myg"
Dutch Nouns
mug, German Nouns
Mücke, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
mygg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
mygg, Swedish Nouns
mygga, Icelandic Nouns
mý.
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