Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorya blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid
From Middle English clege, from Old Norse kleggi. Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk klegg. Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰ-s (“point”); compare Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “barb”).
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