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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English mydge, migge, from Old English mygg, myċġ (“midge, gnat”), from Proto-West Germanic *muggju, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-.
cognates
- Scots mige (“midge”)
- Saterland Frisian Määge (“gnat, mosquito”)
- West Frisian mich (“fly, mosquito”)
- West Flemish meezje (“midge, mosquito”)
- Dutch mug (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
- German Low German Mügge (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
- German Mücke (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
- Swedish mygg, mygga (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
- Icelandic mý (“midge, gnat, fly”)
The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]midge (plural midges)
- any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera
- 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “A Knife in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring:
- "I am being eaten alive!" cried Pippin. "Midgewater! There are more midges than water!"
- 2012 January, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:
- Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
- (fishing) any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge
Derived terms
[edit]- aphid midge
- apple leaf midge
- apple midge
- barley midge
- biting midge (Ceratopogonidae)
- dung midge (Scatopsidae)
- frog-biting midge
- gall midge (Cecidomyiidae)
- mackerel midge
- meniscus midge (Dixidae)
- midge cap
- midge grass (Holcus lanatus)
- Midge Hall
- midgeling
- midge net
- midget
- mountain midge (Deuterophlebiidae)
- net-winged midge (Blephariceridae)
- non-biting midge (Chironomidae)
- pear midge (Contarinia pyrivora)
- phantom midge (Chaoboridae)
- solitary midge (Thaumaleidae)
- sorghum midge
- swede midge
- wheat-midge
- wheat midge
Translations
[edit]fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae
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See also
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