midge的词源

英文词源

midge: midge: see mosquito
midge (n.): Old English mygg, mycg "gnat," from Proto-Germanic *mugjon (cognates: Swedish mygga, Old Saxon muggia, Middle Dutch mugghe, Dutch mug, Old High German mucka, German Mücke "midge, gnat"). No certain cognates beyond Germanic, unless doubtful Armenian mun "gnat" and Albanian mize "gnat" are counted. But Watkins, Klein and others suggest an imitative root used for various humming insects and a relationship to Latin musca (see mosquito). Meaning "diminutive person" is from 1796.

来自古英语mygg,小虫，蚋，蠓，来自Proto-Germanic*mugjon,来自PIE*mu,小昆虫，小虫，拟声词，模仿小虫嗡嗡的声音，词源同moth,mosquito.该词为小虫范指。

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