gnat

Senso (Inglese)

1. Any small insect of the order Diptera, specifically within the suborder Nematocera.
2. (informal) An annoying person.

Concetti

zanzara

🦟

moscerino

anòfele

tafano

pulce di mare

Stechmücke

sinonimi

mosquito

🦟

midge

sandfly

skeeter

fly

✈️

culex

fruit fly

any small biting fly

buffalo gnat

a tiny fly

black fly

a tiny gnat

bug

🐛

cricket

🦗

nipper

small insect

wriggler

culicidae

Traduzioni

mosquito

🦟

mug

🦟

mosquito

🦟

moustique

🦟

moucheron

Mücke

Stechmücke

🦟

culex

mosquit

🦟

sivrisinek

🦟

Schnake

steekmug

🦟

jején

cousin

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/næt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: gnat

Ereditato da inglese antico: gnætt

Affine basso tedesco: Gnatte

Affine svedese: gnatt

Affine tedesco: Gnatz

In summary

From Middle English gnat, from Old English gnætt (“gnat; midge; mosquito”), from Proto-West Germanic *gnatt, *gnattu, from Proto-Germanic *gnattaz, *gnattuz (“gnat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰneHdʰn-, *gʰneHd- (“to gnaw; scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰen- (“to gnaw; bite; scratch; grind”). Cognate with Low German Gnatte (“gnat”), dialectal Swedish gnatt (“mosquito”), German Gnatz (“scabs; rash; scabies; stinginess”). Related also gnit and gnaw.