miga
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- crumb small piece which breaks off from baked food
- essence, core most significant feature of something
- crumb, bit small amount
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish miga inherited from Latin mīca (crumb, morsel, grain, bit) inherited from Proto-Italic *smīkā derived from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (thin, small, delicate).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*smeyg-
Gloss
thin, small, delicate
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mica English
- micaceous English
- *mica Latin
- *micca Latin
- *mīcācula Latin
- mica Latin
- micella Latin
- micidus Latin
- mīca Latin
- mīcha Latin
- mica Italian
- micella Italian
- mica French
- micelle French
- desmigajar Spanish, Castilian
- mica Spanish, Castilian
- migaja Spanish, Castilian
- migar Spanish, Castilian
- *smeyg- Proto-Indo-European
- mica Portuguese
- micela Portuguese
- mie Old French
- mica Galician
- miga Galician
- migalla Galician
- dumica Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- miga Old Portuguese
- dinjic Aromanian
- Miigge Alemannic German
- *smīkā Proto-Italic
- miga Old Spanish