Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA gnat.
From Middle English gnit, gnitte, from Old English *gnitte (“gnit; gnat”), from Proto-West Germanic *gnittā, from Proto-Germanic *gnittǭ, *gnittō (“gnat; midge”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰneHdʰn-, *gʰneHd- (“to gnaw, scratch”). Cognate with Low German gnid (“gnit”), German Gnitte, Gnitze (“midge, gnat”). Compare also Danish gnid (“gnat”), Swedish gnet (“nit”), Norwegian gnit (“gnat”), Icelandic gnit, nitur (“gnat”). Related to gnat.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiongnitenm
- Inherited-form mention*gnitteang · gnit; gnat
- Inherited-form mention*gnittāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*gnittǭgem-pro
- Derivation mention*gʰneHdʰn-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiongnidnds
- Cognate mentionGnittede
- Cognate mentiongnidda
- Cognate mentiongnetsv
- Cognate mentiongnitno
- Cognate mentiongnitis
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