midge – English noun declension

English noun forms of midge

Noun: midge
Singularmidge
Pluralmidges

Sample Sentences

  • "I am being eaten alive!" cried Pippin. "Midgewater! There are more midges than water!" [1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “A Knife in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring:]
  • 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. [2012 January 26, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English mydge, migge, from Old English myġġ, myċġ (“midge, gnat, mosquito”), from Proto-West Germanic *muggju, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mu-, *mew- (“fly, midge”).
2. The dialectal sense of "short person" was originally figurative, and gave rise to midget (“short person”) via the diminutive suffix -et, which has since become part of standard English with that meaning; this has caused midge to undergo rebracketing as a clipping of midget.
3. Cognates
4. * Scots mige (“midge”)
5. * Saterland Frisian Määge (“gnat, mosquito”)
6. * West Frisian mich (“fly, mosquito”)
7. * West Flemish meezje (“midge, mosquito”)
8. * Dutch mug (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
9. * German Low German Mügge (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
10. * German Mücke (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
11. * Swedish mygg, mygga (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
12. * Icelandic mý (“midge, gnat, fly”)
13. The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of
14. * Latin musca
15. * Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa)
16. * Russian му́ха (múxa)
17. * Latvian muša
18. * Czech muchnička
19. * Albanian mizë
20. * Armenian մուն (mun) See: Middle English Nouns 'mydge', Dutch Nouns 'mug', German Nouns 'Mücke', Swedish Nouns 'mygg', Icelandic Nouns 'mý', Latin Nouns 'musca', Ancient Greek Nouns 'μυῖα', Latvian Nouns 'muša'.

Verbs referencing "midge"

Dutch Nouns mug, Spanish Nouns mosca, German Nouns Mücke, Latin Nouns musca, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns mygg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns mygg, Swedish Nouns mygga, Ancient Greek Nouns μυῖα, Icelandic Nouns mý, Danish Nouns myg, Latvian Nouns miģele.