myg
See also: mỳg
Danish edit
Etymology 1 edit
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”).
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.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
myg c (singular definite myggen, plural indefinite myg)
- member of the suborder Nematocera (which includes mosquitos, midges, gnats and others)
Declension edit
Declension of myg
Further reading edit
- “myg,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “Myg,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
- myg on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse mjúkr (“soft, meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, cognate with Norwegian Bokmål myk, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish mjuk. English meek is borrowed from Old Norse.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
myg (neuter mygt, plural and definite singular attributive myge)
Inflection edit
Inflection of myg | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | myg | mygere | mygest2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | mygt | mygere | mygest2 |
Plural | myge | mygere | mygest2 |
Definite attributive1 | myge | mygere | mygeste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |