myg

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Danish

Etymology 1

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

Noun

myg c (singular definite myggen, plural indefinite myg)

  1. member of the suborder Nematocera (which includes mosquitos, midges, gnats and others)
Declension
Declension of myg
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative myg myggen myg myggene
genitive mygs myggens mygs myggenes
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Etymology 2

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

Adjective

myg (neuter mygt, plural and definite singular attributive myge)

  1. (rare) supple, lissome, pliant
Inflection
Inflection of myg
positive comparative superlative
indefinite 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.

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