blackfly (small insects of the order Diptera (family: Simuliidae) that suck blood and resemble flies)
çekim: çoğul knišļi · tamlayan knišļa
köken: Derived from the verb knist (“to itch”) (q.v.). Some dialectal variants (knausis, knauslis, knusis) have the same basic root (Proto-Indo-European *ken-, *kn-), but with a different suffix and/or ablaut form.
knislis sīc
jaukā laikā odi un knišļi cēlās augstu gaisā
pie assinssūcējiem divspārņiem pieder odi, knišļi, miģeles, mušas un dunduri
From Proto-Finnic *mäkärä (probably from earlier *makara), probably borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (whence Lithuanian makatas (“gnat”)). Cognate with dialectal Estonian mägar, Karelian mäkärä, Ludian mägär and Proto-Samic *muokēr.