myg

See also: mỳg

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

• IPA^(key): /myɡ/, [ˈmyɡ̊]

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

Further reading

• “myg,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Myg,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
• myg on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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

• IPA^(key): /myː/, [ˈmyːˀ]

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.

Related terms

• ydmyg

Further reading

• “myg,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “myg,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog