myg

myg

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Manta.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Manta terms

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.

• IPA^(key): /myɡ/, [ˈmyɡ̊]

myg c (singular definite myggen, plural indefinite myg)

1. member of the suborder Nematocera (which includes mosquitos, midges, gnats and others)

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /myː/, [ˈmyːˀ]

myg (neuter mygt, plural and definite singular attributive myge)

1. (rare) supple, lissom, pliant
   1. (figurative) docile, yielding, weak

• ydmyg

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