Noun: mug
Gender: Feminine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Van een mug een olifant maken (To make a mountain out of a molehill (lit.: to make an elephant out of a mosquito))
Nouns inflected like mug
boogbrug,
bergrug,
sneeuwmug,
aanvalsvlag,
topoverleg,
doodskopvlag,
persoonsdag,
open rug,
bultrug,
luchtbrug,
spoorbrug,
regenboogvlag,
scheepslog,
peppelvlag,
ophaalbrug,
zilverrug,
vakwerkbrug,
fietsbrug,
leeuwenvlag,
heuvelrug, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch mugge, from Old Dutch *mugga, from Proto-West Germanic *muggju, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō (“midge”).
2. Compare Low German mügge, German Mücke, West Frisian mich, English midge, Danish myg. See: German Nouns '
Mücke', English Nouns '
midge', Danish Nouns '
myg'.
Verbs referencing "mug"
English Nouns
midget, German Nouns
Mücke, English Nouns
midge, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
mygg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
mygg, Swedish Nouns
mygga, Icelandic Nouns
mý, English Nouns
muggie.
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