mygga
Swedish
/²mʏɡa/
noun
Definitions
- mosquito (small flying insect of the family Culicidae, known for biting and sucking blood)
- (somewhat) a small microphone attached to clothing
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse mý inherited from Proto-Germanic *mugjō (midge, gnat, mosquito) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mu (fly).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mu
Gloss
fly
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
✈️ 🐉 🐦️ 🐲 💸 🕊️ 🚁 🛩️ 🛫 🛬 🦅 🦆 🪁 👨✈️ 👩✈️ 🚁
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Midge Hall English
- midge English
- midgey English
- midgie English
- mugwort English
- myiasis English
- Fenstermücke German
- Gallmücke German
- Haarmücke German
- Mücke German
- Stechmücke German
- Trauermücke German
- Wintermücke German
- langpootmug Dutch, Flemish
- malariamug Dutch, Flemish
- mug Dutch, Flemish
- muggenbult Dutch, Flemish
- muggenziften Dutch, Flemish
- sneeuwmug Dutch, Flemish
- Мухосранск Russian
- му́ха Russian
- мушиный Russian
- мушка Russian
- κυνόμυια Ancient Greek
- μυιοσόβος Ancient Greek
- μυῖα Ancient Greek
- *mu Proto-Indo-European
- *mu- Proto-Indo-European
- *mu-, *mus-, *mew- Proto-Indo-European
- *mū- Proto-Indo-European
- mygg Norwegian Bokmål
- *mugjō Proto-Germanic
- *mugjǭ Proto-Germanic
- burczymucha Polish
- mszyca Polish
- mucha Polish
- muchołap Polish
- muchołówka Polish
- muchówka Polish
- muszka Polish
- muszysko Polish
- mygg Norwegian Nynorsk
- mycg Old English
- mygg Old English
- migge Middle English
- mydge Middle English
- mý Old Norse
- myg Danish
- *mùxa Proto-Slavic
- mý Icelandic
- mýbit Icelandic
- mýfluga Icelandic
- mýmargur Icelandic
- mugge Middle Dutch
- mucka Old High German
- mug Afrikaans
- mizë Albanian
- mucha Slovak
- muchotrávka Slovak
- muška Slovak
- my Westrobothnian
- mich Western Frisian
- mucha Lower Sorbian
- *mūjā Proto-Albanian
- myg Old Danish