gnat

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English gnat, from Old English gnætt (“gnat; midge; mosquito”), from Proto-West Germanic *gnatt, *gnattu, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz, *gnattuz (“gnat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰneHdʰn-, *gʰneHd- (“to gnaw; scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰen- (“to gnaw; bite; scratch; grind”). Cognate with Low German Gnatte (“gnat”), dialectal Swedish gnatt (“mote; particle; atom”), German Gnatz (“scabs; rash; scabies; stinginess”). Related also gnit and gnaw.

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PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /næt/
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Rhymes: -æt

NounEdit

gnat (plural gnats)

Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.
(informal) An annoying person.
- 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 115:
  "Away thou whining gnat, and trouble me not!"

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

gnit

TranslationsEdit

any small insect of the order Diptera

Afrikaans: mug
Arabic:
Egyptian Arabic: برغش‎ m (barḡaš)
Armenian: մոծակ (hy) (mocak)
Bashkir: серәкәй (seräkäy)
Bengali: ডাঁশ (bn) (ḍãśô)
Bulgarian: комар (bg) m (komar)
Catalan: mosquit (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蚋 (zh) (ruì), (mosquito) 蚊 (zh) (wén)
Danish: myg (da) c, stikmyg c
Dupaningan Agta: rahik
Dutch: mug (nl) f, knut (nl)
Erzya: марав (marav)
Esperanto: kulo (eo)
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: mýggjabiti m
Finnish: sääski (fi)
French: moucheron (fr) m
German: Stechmücke (de) f, (colloquial, regional) Schnake (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: κώνωψ m (kṓnōps)
Greenlandic: ippernaq
Guaraní: ñati'û
Gujarati: મચ્છર m (macchar)
Hungarian: szúnyog (hu)
Irish: corrmhíol m
Italian: moscerino (it)
Japanese: 蚋 (ja) (ぶよ, buyo), ブヨ (buyo)
Kapampangan: absang
Korean: 모기 (ko) (mogi)
Latin: culex m, (rare) alucita f
Latvian: ods (lv) m
Lithuanian: mašalas m
Macedonian: мушичка f (mušička), комарец m (komarec)
Malagasy: aloiloy (mg)
Manx: meeyl f, quill f
Norman: bibet m
Norwegian: knott m
Persian: پشه‎ (fa) (paše)
Portuguese: mosquito (pt) m
Russian: мо́шка (ru) f (móška), (mosquito) кома́р (ru) m (komár)
Scottish Gaelic: meanbh-chuileag f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: мушица f, (mosquito) комарац f

Roman: mušica (sh) f, (mosquito) komarac (sh) f
Sicilian: muschitta (scn) f, sampagghiuni m
Spanish: (mosquito) mosquito (es) m
Swedish: stickmygga (sv) c
Tagalog: niknik
Turkish: sivrisinek (tr)
Vietnamese: ruồi nhuế
Volapük: (♂♀) muskitil, (♂) himuskitil, (♀) jimuskitil
Welsh: gwybedyn m
West Frisian: langskonk